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BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH 


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JOHN  G.   DEANE. 


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BRIEF  Mention  of  His  Connection  with  the 


Northeastern  Boundary  of  Maine, 


Copied  by  permission  from  the  records  of  the 
Maine  State  Historical  Soeiety; 


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Northeastern   Boundary  of  Maine, 

Copied  by  permission  from  the  records  of  the  Maine  State  Historical  Society  ; 


ALSO, 


Memoranda   about   Members   of  the   Family,    Old 
Residents  of  the  City  of  Ellsworth, 

Maine,  &c. 


PREPARED   BY,   AND   PRINTED   FOR,    HIS  SON, 

LLEWELLYN    DEANE, 

June,  1885, 
for  private  use. 


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John  G.  Deane,  Biographical  sketch  of ;  read  before  Maine  Historical  Society,     3 

Col.  John  IJlack,  IJrief  sketch  of 9 

Public  services  of  John  G.  Deane 10 

N.  E    Boundary  Question,  John  G.  Dea-e's  connection  with  the 14 

Obituary  notice  of  John  G.  Deane,  with  full  mention  of  his  doings  in  the 

N.  E.  Boundary  matter;  by  Hon.  C,  S.  Davies 17 

Family  notes 24 

Mrs.  Deane,  Biographical  sketch  of;  by  Rev.  Dr.  J    E.  Rankin 29 

Ancestral  memoranda 31 

Joseph  Deane  and  his  Wife,  Sketch  of;  by  J.  VV.  D.  Hall 34 

Joseph  Deane,  Sketch  of ;  by  Joseph  A.  Deane 36 

Joseph  Deane,  Obituary  notice  of 38 

Judge  Padelford,  Sketch  of ;  by  J.  W.  D.  Hall 39 

Joseph  A.  Deane,  Sketch  of ;  by  J.  W.  D.  Hall 41 

Mrs.  Ann  (Cook)  Moulton,  Note  about 42 

Mrs.  Rebecca  (Cook)  Conant,  Note  about 43 

Cumberland  Bar,  Action  of,  on  death  of  Henry  P.  Deane 43 

Byron  D.  VerrilPs  remarks  on  same  occasion 44 

Hon.  C.  W.  Goddard's  remarks  on  same  occasion 46 

Judge  W.  W.  Virgin's  remarks  on  same  occasion 48 

Extracts  from  letters  of  John  G.  Deane  to  his  Wife  (before  marriage) 51 

Mrs.  C.  J   Milliken,  Letter  from,  about  John  G.  Deane  and  Ellsworth 57 

Hon.  Israel  Washburn's  estimate  of  John  G.  Deane'.   public  services 59 

Gov.  Lincoln,  Letter  from 60 

Col.  John  Black,  Note  about 61 

Secretary  of  Maine  Historical  Society,  Letter  from 62 

Hon.  Joseph  Williamson,  Letter  from.,. 62 

Hon.  C.  W.  Goddard,  Letter  from 62 

G.  E.  B.  Jackson,  Letter  from... 63 

Hon.  W.  W.  Rice,  Letter  from 63 

Mrs.  A.  W.  Clark,  Letter  from 64 

Mrs.  C.  L.  (Jeliisim)  Trubshaw,  Letter  from 66 

Mrs.  Sabra  (Deane)  Otis,  Letter  from 67 

Chief  Justice  Peters,  Letter  from 68 


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John  Gilmore  Deane  was  born  in  Raynham,  Massachusetts, 
March  27,  1785.  His  parents  were  *Joseph  and  Mary  (Gil- 
more)  Deane,  both  of  whom  weic  born  and  lived  and  died,  in 
said  Raynham. 

He  graduated  at  Brown  University,  in  the  class  of  1806; 
read  law  in  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  with  *Hon.  Seth  Padel- 
ford,  (Judge  of  Probate  and  LL.  D.  "  Brown,")  and  settled  in 
Ellsworth,  Maine,  September  23,  1809.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 13,  1 810,  Rebecca,  who  was  born  in  Taunton  May  29,  1792, 
and  was  the  youngest  daughter  of  Judge  Padelford,  aforesaid,, 
and  Rebecca  (Dennis)  his  wife. 

AS   A    LAWYER   AND   A    MAN. 


Mr.  Deane  was  admitted  as  attorney  in  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  Hancock  County,  in  18 10,  and,  according  to  the 
rule  in  those  days,  four  years  later,  as  counsellor  in  the  Su- 
preme Court.  (For  many  years  Hancock  County  was  very 
large  territorially.  From  1810  to  18 16  it  included  a  portion 
of  Penobscot  County,  and  from  1 810  to  1827  most  of  what  is 
now  Waldo  County,  as  well  as  a  part  of  the  present  Knox 

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County.  Castinc  was  the  shire  town  till  February  17,  1836.) 
He  acquired  a  very  extensive  law  practice,  and  was  held  in  high 
esteem  by  the  Court  and  Bar.  He  enjoyed  the  warm  personal 
friendship  of  Simon  Greenleaf,  John  Orr,  Jacob  McGaw,  Wil- 
liam Abbott,  Samuel  Fessenden,  William  P.  Preble,  Thomas  A, 
Deblois,  Joshua  W.  Hathaway,  Prentiss  Mellen,  George  Her- 
bert, Charles  S.  Davies,  and  most  of  the  judges  and  leading 
lawyers  of  the  State  in  those  days.  He  was  not  only  a  good 
student  of  the  law,  but  he  had  a  very  fine  literary  taste, — his 
style  of  composition  was  remarkably  pure  and  graceful.  He 
gathered  a  very  good  miscellaneous  library  of  the  best  works 
in  history,  poetry,  romance  and  essays;  his  law  library  was  a 
very  large  one  for  those  days,  comprising  the  standard  text 
books  and  the  American  and  English  Reports.  He  was  a 
subscriber  to  North  American  Beview  from  the  first  issue. 

He  certainly  held  some  town  offices — but  as  the  town  rec- 
'ords  were  destroyed  by  fire  some  years  ago,  it  is  not  possible 
now  to  say  what  offices  or  when  he  was  the  incumbent.  It 
appears  by  records  in  the  Massachusetts  State  House  that  in 
1 81 3  he  was  one  of  the  Selectmen  who  signed  a  petition  to  re- 
imburse the  town  of  Ellsworth  for  the  expenses  of  the  militia 
•  ordered  out  to  suppress  the  riot  in  Castine  in  July,  181 3. 

He  was  connected  with  the  militia  organizations  during  his 

^earlier  professional  life,  and  was  in  brief  service  as  an  officer 

.during  the  war  of  181 2.     He  subsequently  rose  to  the  position 

of  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  militia,  and  in  his  later  years  was 

commonly  known  as  "Colonel"  Deane. 

He  had  a  great  fondness  for  all  kinds  of  manly  sports ;  loved 
to  have  about  him  good  horses  and  fine  dogs,  and  was  enthu- 
siastic in  hunting  and  fishing.  His  ardent  puisuit  of  these 
pastimes  led  him  very  often  to  make  long  excursions  into  the 
then  wild  regions  north  and  northeast  of  the  town  of  Ells- 
worth. He  was  famous  in  all  the  region  round  about  as  a 
marksman.  It  was  commonly  reported  that  at  Thanksgiving 
shootings  he  was  either  ruled  out  or  obliged  to  shoot  double, 
or  treble,  the  distance  of  the  ordinary  range. 


PERSONALLY    AND   SOCIALLY. 

While  I  have  spoken  of  my  father  as  a  lawyer  and  a  man,  I 
deem  it  only  proper  to  say  a  few  words  about  him  personally 
and  socially,  simply  as  my  father — a  purely  private  individual. 

In  stature  he  was  about  five  feet  ten  inches  tall,  of  fair  size 
in  frame,  spare  in  flesh,  rather  dark  in  complexion,  hair  brown, 
eyes  also  brown.  He  never  wore  a  beard.  Though  a  good 
conversationalist  he  was  not  talkative,  but  rather  inclined  to 
taciturnity.  In  his  family,  however,  and  with  his  children  he 
was  more  the  "big  brother"  than  the  stern  parent,  and  had  a 
pleasant  and  affectionate  way  of  entering  into  the  studies,, 
sports  and  engagements  of  our  youth.  I  well  remember  when 
in  the  winter  of  1838-9,  he  was  busy  with  the  draughtsman  in 
the  preparation  of  his  map  of  Maine,  and  used  the  parlors  of 
our  State  street  house  in  Portland  as  his  office,  how  intensely 
he  was  delighted  at  finding  one  day  among  his  papers,  my 
childish  attempt  at  a  war  romance.  The  marvel  and  fun  of  it 
were  on  his  tongue  for  many  a  day  afterwards.  Nor  can  I  ever 
forget  the  romps  we  younger  children  used  to  have  with  him 
on  the  floor,  sofas  and  about  the  room.  When  I  was  only  ten 
years  of  age,  once  on  his  return  from  a  brief  absence,  he  gave 
me  "  Botta's  American  Revolution,'  ;aying  that  though  writ- 
ten by  an  Italian,  it  was  the  only  good  history  of  that  war. 
He  was  greatly  concerned  that  his  boys  should  be  well  versed 
in  history.  He  took  a  youthful  pride  in  the  account  my 
brothers  Joseph  and  Henry  gave  of  the  debates  before  the 
"Pnyxian"  and  "Philomathean"  debating  societies,  which 
about  those  times  had  quite  a  local  reputation,  particularly  the 
former.  Always  on  his  return  from  a  trip  to  the  "Westward," 
that  is,  Massachusetts,  he  was  sure  to  remember  all  his  boys 
with  a  present  of  a  book. 

LIFE      1    ELLSWORTt:. 

My  father  was  not  a  member  of  any  church.  In  his  earlier 
life  in  P>llsworth,  after  the  organization  of  the  Congregational 


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church  in  1812,  he,  with  my  mother,  worshiped  there,  and 
the  whole  family  attended  that  church  till  our  removal  to 
Portland.  The  pastor  from  September  3,  181 2,  to  November 
II,  1835,  Rev.  Peter  Nourse,  (brother  to  the  late  Dr.  Amos 
Nourse,  of  Bath,  formerly  U.  S.  Senator  from  Maine,)  was  a 
famous  man  in  those  days;  renowned  for  his  zeal  in  the  gospel 
ministry  and  for  the  goodness  of  his  heart.  I  know  we  little 
folks,  in  the  latter  days  of  his  pastorate,  used  to  think  his  ser- 
mons exceedingly  ong.  I  am  sure  that  he  sowed  good  seed 
in  that  soil,  and  watered  them  faithfully  with  prayers  and  tears. 
When  I  first  read  Goldsmith's  "Deserted  Village"  it  seemed 
to  me  that  his  parish  priest 

"  Passing  rich  with  forty  pounds  a  year," 

was  a  veritable  or  counterpart  Pastor  Nourse.  This  godly 
man  was  indeed  rarely  useful  in  his  day  and  generation  in  edu- 
cational as  well  as  gospel  matters,  but,  if  my  childhood's  mem- 
ory serves  me  well,  his  life  was  not  a  gay  period  of  enjoyment, 
or  rich  with  present  rewards  for  work  well  done.  I  hold  his 
memory  in  warm  esteem  because  of  the  respect  and  affection 
with  which  my  parents  regarded  him.  Our  family  were  not 
allowed  to  talk  lightly  or  with  disrespect  of  our  religious 
teacher.  He  was  my  mother's  pastor  and  spiritual  counsellor 
in  the  many  scenes  of  affliction  she  was  called  to  pass  through 
in  the  sickness  and  death  of  those  of  her  children  who  de- 
ceased before  we  moved  from  Ellsworth,  and  in  the  death  of 
her  mother,  Mrs.  Judge  Padelford,  who,  having  for  some  time 
made  her  home  with  my  pareits,  died  there  about  1822.  The 
funerals  of  all  these  were  attended  by  Pastor  Nourse.  They 
were  all  buried  in  the  Congregational  churchyard — a  modest 
stone  tells  their  resting  places  and  names. 

Nor  was  my  father  alone  interested  in  the  upbuilding  of  this 
church — his  catholic  views  in  religious  matters  led  him  to 
make  a  donation  when  the  Baptist  church  was  being  built  on 
the  west  side  of  the  river,  not  far  from  the  present  county 
buildings.  I  suppose  his  gift  amounted  at  least  to  the  price  of 
a  pew,  for  I  know  that  not  long  before  we  moved  from  Ells- 


worth  I  attended  services  in  that  church  one  afternoon  with 
some  older  members  of  our  family,  and  sat  in  what  we  called 
"father's"  pew. 

I  am  greatly  surprised  as  I  write  to  note  how  vividly  the 
names  of  many  of  the  active  business  men  in  Ellsworth,  in 
those  d?ys,  come  to  my  mind.  I  am  sure  I  could  have  had 
next  to  no  personal  acquainta^ice  with  any  of  them.  There 
was  Andrew  Peters,  who  lived  in  the  fine,  large  house  on  the 
Bangor  road  opposite  the  Congregational  Church,  and  who 
did  business  in  a  brick  store  on  the  northwest  corner  of  this 
road  and  the  Bucksport  road,  close  to  the  bridge.  His  son 
John  A  ,  now  Chief  Justice,  (who,  also,  was  not  long  since,  and 
for  several  terms,  a  distinguished  member  of  Congress,)  was 
one  the  famous  boys  of  those  early  days.  Of  a  summer's  day  in 
passing  Mr.  Peters'  residence  on  my  way  to  school  at  the  Town 
House,  I  used  to  linger  and  gaze  with  longing  eyes  at  the  wonder- 
ful bounty  of  apples  on  the  trees  in  front  of  his  house.  I  have 
never  seen  any  such  apples  since.  And  Dea.  Samuel  But- 
ton, of  blessed  memory,  who  raised  a  large  family  of  good 
business  men.  Likewise  Dr.  Peck,  with  his  wonderful  saddle 
bags  filled  with  medicine  of  all  sorts  and  marvelous  to  cure, 
who  was  to  my  youthful  mind  a  sort  of  superhuman  being 
in  his  wonderful  possession  of  power  to  heal  the  sick  and  dis- 
eased. But  how  shall  I  call  the  roll  in  which  appears  the 
names  of  Jordan,  Whitaker,  McFarland,  Jones,  Herbert,  Blood, 
Tisdale,  Tinker,  Parcher,  Hall,  Buckmore,  Joy,  Whiting,  Jar- 
vis,  Langdon,  Macomber,  Hale,  Lowell,  Hathaway,  Grant, 
Warren,  Hopkins,  Sawyer,  Robinson,  and  many  others?  I 
would  not  fail  to  remember  with  most  sincere  affection,  Wil- 
liam Jellison, — one  of  a  large  family,  all  good  and  true,  both 
men  and  women.  He  married  my  relative,  Miss  Julia  Tisdale, 
whose  acquaintance  he  made  while  she  was  visiting  my  mother, 
her  kinswoman.  They  lived  a  short  time  after  their  marriage, 
in  Ellsworth  village,  or  at  the  "  Bridge,"  as  we  called  it  in 
those  days.  Then  they  moved  to  "  No.  8,"  on  the  Bangor  road, 
about  halfway  between  Bangor  and  Ellsworth,  and  settled  on 
a  farm  in  what  is  now  called  North  Ellsworth.     Mr.  Jellison 


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raised  a  very  large  family.  His  son  Charles,  a  promising; 
young  merchant  in  Portland,  was  suddenly  cut  off  in  his  early 
manhood.  Also  Edward,  a  young  man  of  great  talent,  who 
died  while  in  Union  College.  George,  a  prosperous  business 
man  in  New  York.  Zachariah,  who  was  some  years  a  mer- 
chant in  Boston,  later  in  Nebraska,  and  held  till  recently  an  im- 
portant office  in  the  New  York  Custom  House.  He  now  re- 
sides in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  John,  who  after  a  good  war  record,^ 
died  with  his  armor  on ;  and  other  sons  and  two  daughters. 
I  often  visited  their  farm  home,  once  with  my  father  and 
mother  in  the  early  summer  of  1839,  and  alone  at  later  dates. 
Mr.  Jellison  was  possessed  of  intellectual  power  of  more  than 
ordinary  grasp,  and  I  never  met  a  man  of  nobler  heart  or 
more  genuine  wit,  the  kind  that  runs  over  with  humor  and 
delicious  fun. 

There  comes  up  before  me  as  I  write,  a  curiously  intangible 
vision  of  an  old  gentleman  carrying  a  cane  and  dressed  in 
short  clothes,  wearing  a  pue  and  a  bountiful  white  shirt  bosom. 
I  cannot  certainly  fix  any  name  to  him,  and  though  the  vision 
is  dim,  I  am  sure  that  it  has  a  foundation  in  some  personage 
of  those  early  days.  Yet  I  have  a  shadowy  recollection  of 
such  a  name  as  Major  Phillips.  Also,  it  occurs  to  me  that 
there  was  a  wonderful  fiddler,  one  Black  George,  who  was 
always  on  hand  when  a  dance  took  place.  And,  finally,  Capt. 
Jesse  Button,  the  renowned  authority  in  all  martial  matters, 
and  the  hero  of  all  the  musters  that  I  heard  talked  of  in  those 
times,  with  their  sham  fights  and  what  not. 

While  I  recount  these  personal  reminiscences  I  am  induced 
to  repeat  what  my  mother  often  told  me,  namely,  that  when 
she  first  visited  Ellsworth,  which  was,  I  think,  in  181 2,  she 
came  from  Bucksport,  on  horseback  by  a  path  marked  by 
"blazed"  trees.  During  her  first  summer  in  the  village  my 
parents  boarded,  and  the  one  ccnstant  dish  on  the  table  was 
salmon.  She  always  used  to  say  in  her  latter  years  that  she 
ate  in  those  days  enough  salmon  to  last  her  lifetime.  My 
parents'  house,  which  during  most  of  their  residence  in  Ells- 
worth was  on  the  east  side  of  what  is  now  Water  street,  not 


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far  from  the  present  Main  street,  was  made  the  home  of  very- 
many  of  the  young  relatives  on  both  sides.  My  parents  were 
the  practical  godfather  and  godmother  of  a  large  number  of 
*nieces  and  nephews,  as  well  as  more  distant  relatives,  and 
helped  them  all  along  in  life  with  almost  parental  affection^ 
care  and  solicitude. 

COL.    JOHN    BLACK. 


Some  time  p.  3r  to  my  father's  settlement  in  Ellsworth,  John 
Black,*  a  young  Englishman,  settled  there  as  the  deputy  agent 
of  the  Bingham  heirs,  who  owned  very  extensive  tracts  of 
land  in  Hancock  and  Washington  counties,  called  in  common 
phrase  "The  Bingham  Purchase."  The  acquaintance  between 
these  two  young  men  ripened  into  a  strong  and  enduring" 
friendship,  which  lasted  uninterrupted  till  my  father's  death. 
"Colonel"  Black  was  the  name  by  which  he  was  familiarly 
known,  from  the  fact  that,  after  he  became  an  American  citizen, 
he  entered  ardently  into  the  militia  service,  and  in  due  course 
became  Lieut.  Colonel  of  the  2d  Regiment,  2d  Brigade,  loth 
Division.  He  built,  on  the  Bluehill  road,  about  half  a  mile 
from  the  "Bridge,"  a  very  large  brick  house,  set  at  some 
distance  back  from  the  road,  which  he  occupied  till  his  death, 
and  which  is  yet  standing.  I  recall  with  pleasure  many  visits 
in  early  youth,  and  later,  at  this  delightful  home. 

He  was  not  only  one  of  the  best  business  men  ever  known 
in  Maine,  but  he  was  finely  educated  and  accomplished  in  the 
elegant  attainments  peculiar  to  the  higher  classes  in  the  land 
of  his  birth.  He  was  a  good  draughtsman,  and  an  amateur 
painter  of  no  mean  skill.  Though  not  large  in  stature  he  was 
very  noticable  in  appearance,  and  in  his  personal  address  he 
was  graceful  and  polite  and  possessed  of  most  courtly  man- 
ners. In  all  respects  he  was  a  noble  man  and  a  most  excel- 
lent gentleman.  His  management  of  the  great  trusts  of  the 
Bingham  estate  was  characterized  by  the  strictest  diligence 
and  fidelity,  as  well  as  the  most  scrupulous  honesty.     He  was 

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quiet  in  his  mode  of  life,  simple  in  his  tastes,  and  by  tact  and 
careful  management  he  accumulated  a  very  large  property. 
He  married  a  daughter  of  Gen.  David  Cobb,  of  Gouldsboro, 
Maine,  (who  came  from  Taunton,  Mass.,  to  act  as  the  agent  of 
the  "  Bingham  Purchase,")  and  reared  a  numerous  family,  and 
many  of  his  descendants  are  now  residents  of  Ellsworth.  On 
the  death  of  Gen.  Cobb  in  1830,  he  became,  as  his  successsor, 
full  agent  of  the  "  Bingham  Purchase."  He  died  in  P^llsworth 
October  25,  1856,  at  a  ripe  age,  and  profoundly  regretted  not 
only  by  the  citizens  of  that  town,  but  by  a  very  large  circle  of 
friends  and  acquaintances  among  the  best  people  in  Maine 
and  Massachusetts..  His  remains  were  interred  in  the  family 
tomb  on  his  estate. 

Colonel  Black  was  enable  1  to  throw  a  good  share  of  legal 
business  into  Mr.  Deane's  hands,  and  in  attending  to  it  Mr. 
Deane  was  called  upon  to  make  long  expeditions  here  and 
there  through  the  wild,  or  very  sparsely  settled,  portions  in 
Hancock  and  adjoining  counties. 

By  means  of  his  hunting  tours  and  these  extended  excur- 
sions Mr.  Deane  acquired  a  \  ery  thorough  experience  with 
life  in  the  woods,  and  became  1  ^ost  peculiarly  well  fitted  for 
the  performance  of  the  public  duties  which  devolved  upon  him 
later,  in  connection  with  the  Northeastern  Boundary  of  Maine. 


MR.    DEANE  S    PUBLIC    LIFE. 

He  was  active  as  a  Federalist  in  politics,  and  was  a  repre- 
sentative from  Ellsworth  to  the  General  Court  of  Massachu- 
setts, in  1 8 16,  '17,  '18,  and  '19,  and  representative  from  ¥A\s- 
worth  to  the  Legislature  of  Maine  in  1825,  '26,  '27,  '28,  and  '31. 

What  he  did,  as  well  as  the  value  of  his  services  as  a  Legis- 
lator in  the  estimate  of  his  associates,  may  be  generally  under- 
stood from  the  following  memoranda  of  the  reports  he  wrote 
while  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of  Maine,  and  the  resolves 
passed  by  that  body,  viz: 

1827.  Report  on  the  Northeastern  Boundary  question. 


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1828.  Report  upon  the  Northeastern  Boundary  question. 
8vo,  pp.  55. 

1830.  Resolve  of  the  Legislature  allowing  him  $\yo  for  ne- 
gotiating release  of  land  claims  with  Penobscot  Indians, 

1 83 1 .  Report  of  committee  on  State  lands,  of  which  he  was 
chairman.     8vo.,  pp.  12. 

1 83 1.  Report  as  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  North- 
eastern Boundary,     pp.  4. 

1 83 1.  Report  as  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  North- 
eastern Boundary,     p.  13. 

1 83 1.  Resolve  granting  him  half  a  township  of  land. 

1 83 1.  Letter  to  Governor  Samuel  E.  Smith  about  the 
Northeastern  Boundary. 

1839.  Resolve  paying  him  ;^465.03  for  locating  the  North- 
eastern Boundary  line  under  resolve  of  March  23,  1838, 

Most  probably,  however,  this  memoranda  represents  but  a 
very  small  part  of  the  actual  work  he  did  while  in  the  Maine 
Legislature.  This  record  indicates  how  busy  he  was  and  the 
kind  of  work  that  engaged  his  attention. 

It  should  be  stated  in  this  connection  that  the  search  for  my 
father's  legislative  history  has  been  somewhat  difficult  because 
the  State  documents  were  not  printed  till  1833,  and  some  of 
the  archives  were  lost  in  the  removal  of  the  public  records, 
&c.,  from  Portland  to  Augusta,  when  the  latter  city  was  made 
the  capital. 

By  degrees,  and  from  his  varied  experience  in  the  woods 
and  wild  portions  of  the  State,  as  well  as  from  his  education 
in  public  affairs,  he  had  become  intensely  interested  in  the 
questions  relating  to  the  Northeastern  Boundary.  Among  my 
earliest  recollections  relating  to  him  and  our  Ellsworth  home, 
are  the  constant  talks  between  him  and  his  visitors  about  the 
"disputed  territory,"  "  Madawaska,"  and  our  public  rights  to 
the  fine  lands  in  the  northern  part  of  our  State,  just  above  the 
St.  John  river.  From  the  glowing  description  of  the  wonder- 
ful wheat  soil  up  there,  and  the  agricultural  possibilities  of  that 
region,  in  my  childish  imagination  I  used  to  think  it  was  a  very 
"Beulah"  land.     In  his  frequent  journeys  in  search  of  evi- 


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dence,  or  otherwise,  to  the  northern  part  of  the  State,  officially 
or  privately,  he  accumulated  an  immense  amount  of  affidavit, 
or  other  testimony,  on  points  relating  tc  this  boundary  ques- 
tion. He  published  articles  in  many  of  the  newspapers  of  the 
State  embodying  his  information  or  views  upon  this  important 
theme.  These  contributions,  over  the  signatures  of  "Cato," 
"  Ishmajl,"  and  "  Peter  Parley,"  attracted  great  attention  and 
had  a  deep  influence  in  educating  and  directing  the  public 
mind.  I  have  an  autograph  letter  from  Gov.  pjioch  Lincoln 
to  my  father,  referring  to  these  writings  and  thanking  him  for 
what  he  had  done  in  this  way.*  I  have  recently  found  a  por- 
tion of  the  original  drafts  of  these  papers.  They  are  now  be- 
ing very  carefully  edited  by  a  valued  friend,t  rarely  capable  in 
such  matters,  and  will  in  due  time  be  deposited  in  the  archives 
of  the  Maine  Historical  Society.  His  unpublished  manu- 
scripts on  the  subject  were  very  voluminous — at  his  death 
there  were  enough  to  fill  a  large  trunk — all  written  in  his  very 
plain  and  rapid  hand.  I  suppose  the  family  thought  that  the 
settlement  of  the  national  disputes  had  taken  all  value  from 
these  papers,  since  by  degrees,  and  chiefly  by  neglect,  they 
were  lost.  In  one  of  his  later  journeys  to  the  disputed  terri- 
tory he  cut  from  a  tree,  which  he  said  was  on  the  exact  north- 
east corner  of  Maine,  (according  to  his  loyal  idea,)  a  stick 
which  he  had  fashioned  into  a  cane,  in  the  ivory  head  of 
which  he  had  engraved  the  record  whence  he  obtained  it. 
This  cane  he  carried  constantly,  thereafter,  till  the  day  of  his 
fatal  illness. 

Hon.  Israel  Washburn,  Jr.,  who  was  Governor  of  Maine 
from  1861  to  1863,  in  his  very  able  article  on  "The  North- 
eastern Boundary,"  read  before  the  Maine  Historical  Society, 
at  Portland,  May  15,  1879,  makes  frequent  and  most  honor- 
able mention  of  the  public  value  of  Mr.  Deane's  services  in 
connection  with  that  great  and  important  matter.* 

In  this  same  connection  I  recall  with  a  son's  pride  the  very 
warm  and  generous  remarks  made  to  me  in  1846,  while  I  was 
in  college,  by  ex-Governor  Robert  P.  Dunlap,  who  was  then 


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living  in  Brunswick.  Though  he  and  my  father  were  of  oppo- 
site politics,  he  entertained  the  most  profound  respect  for  the 
abihty  and  energy  with  which  my  father  had  done  his  work 
for  the  State  in  this  behalf  Governor  Dunlap  asked  me  once 
when  I  was  visiting  at  his  house,  if  I  had  ever  read  my  father's 
reports  on  the  subject,  and  on  rny  answering  "no,"  he  took 
them  from  his  library  shelves  and  handed  them  to  me,  remark- 
ing that  I  ought  to  know  all  about  these  matters,  thoroughly 
and  well,  for  if  ever  a  son  had  cause  for  being  proud  of  his 
father's  public  services  I  had. 

I  also  call  to  mind  what  Hon.  Nathan  Clifford,  afterwards 
Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  remarked  to  me 
on  this  subject  in  1851,  soon  after  he  moved  to  Portland.  He 
said  that  though  not  of  the  same  political  faith  as  my  father, 
he  had,  as  a  young  member  of  the  Legislature  in  1831 ,  cast  no 
vote  which  he  remembered  with  more  pleasure  than  that  in 
favor  of  granting  a  township  of  land  to  my  father  as  a  public 
recognition  of  the  value  of  his  services  in  this  great  public 
matter. 

HIS    LAND    BUSINESS REMOVAL   TO    PORTLAND, 

Late  in  life  Mr.  Deane  accumulated  quite  a  large  property, 
chiefly  in  timber  lands.  Nor  was  he  so  selfish  in  his  knowl- 
edge of  good  timber  lands  as  not  to  advise  his  friends  frankly 
as  to  his  opinion  in  these  matters.  His  assistance  in  this  be- 
half was  once  so  valuable  to  Hon.  Elijah  L.  Hamlin,  of  Ban- 
gor, and  Mr.  Ruggles,  of  Machias,  that  they  jointly  presented 
him  a  very  handsome  and  complete  service  of  silver  plate.  I 
well  remember  the  marvel  of  its  display,  vhen  in  1835,  the 
package  was  opened  in  our  Ellsworth  home,  fresh  from  the 
store  of  Jones,  Low  &  Ball,  of  Boston.  This  service  was  more 
than  a  nine  days'  wonder  in  the  little  village. 

In  the  fall  of  1835  he  moved  to  Portland,  and  bought  the 
property  on  the  south  side  of  State  street,  between  Gray  and 
Spring  streets,  which  Mason  Greenwood  had  finely  improved. 
This  property  continued  to  be  the  homestead  of  his  family,  or 
descendants,  till  the  spring  of  1884. 


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HIS   DECEASE. 

My  father  was  at  Cherryfield  in  the  fall  of  1839,  attending- 
to  business  in  connection  with  his  large  hn-^ed  interests,  and 
becoming  ill  early  in  November,  was  treated  with  such  suc- 
cess that  he  was  supposed  to  be  recovering.  By  some  acci- 
dent the  nurse  gave  him  by  mistake  tartar  emetic  instead  of 
cream  tartar.  When  the  mistake  was  discovered,  all  possible 
remedies  were  tried  but  to  no  purpose.  He  was  sick  at  the 
residence  of  J.  Tilden  Moulton,  who  married  my  cousin,  Ann 
P.  Cook,  (she  had  been  raised  in  our  family,)  and  died  there 
November  10,  1839. 

THE   VALUE  OF    HIS  PUBLIC  SERVICES  IN  CONNECTION  WITH  THE. 
NORTHEASTERN    BOUNDARY. 

When  we  read,  in  these  latter  days,  the  history  of  the  bound- 
aries of  Maine,  there  is  much  to  marvel  at  and  much  to  excite 
our  ire.  In  the  conscious  strength  of  our  national  power  of 
to-day,  we  are  apt  to  forget  that  once  the  Nation  was  weak, 
and,  in  comparison  with  Great  Britain,  quite  insignificant — 
having  no  rights  that  the  said  haughty  nation  was  bound  to 
have  any  sort  of  respect  for. 

The  boundaries  of  Maine  contiguous  to  the  British  Prov- 
inces seem  to  be  so  clearly  stated  in  article  second  of  the 
Treaty  of  Peace  concluded  at  Paris,  between  Great  Britain  and 
the  United  States,  in  1783,  that  it  now  appears  very  strange 
that  any  dispute  ever  arose  about  them.  The  northerly  line 
is  thus  described: 

"P'rom  the  northwest  angle  of  Nova  Scotia,  to  wit:  that 
angle  which  is  formed  by  a  line  drawn  due  north  from  the 
source  of  the  St.  Croix  River  to  the  highlands,  along  the  said 
highlands  which  divide  those  rivers  that  empty  themselves 
into  the  St.  Lawrence  from  those  which  fall  into  the  Atlantic 
Ocean,  to  the  Northwesternmost  head  of  Connecticut  River." 

The  Eastern  line  is  described  thus:  "  P'ast,  by  a  line  drawn 
along  the  middle  of  the  river  St.  Croix  from  its  mouth  in  the 


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Bay  of  Fundy  to  its  source,  and  from  its  source  directly  north 
to  the  aforesaid  highlands  which  divide  the  waters  that  fall  into 
the  Atlantic  Ocean  from  those  which  fall  into  the  river  St. 
Lawrence,  comprehending  all  islands  within  twenty  leagues  of 
any  part  of  the  United  States,  and  lying  between  the  lines  to 
be  drawn  due  East  from  the  points  where  the  afor  said  bound- 
aries between  Nova  Scotia,  on  the  one  part,  and  East  Florida 
on  the  other,  shall  respectively  touch  the  Bay  of  Fundy  and 
the  Atlantic  Ocean,  excepting  such  is.ands  as  now  are,  or  here- 
tofore have  been,  within  the  limit  of  the  said  Province  of  Nova 
Scotia." 

In  regard  to  the  Eastern  line  it  seems  to  have  been  proven 
beyond  any  reasonable  doubt  that  there  were  three  rivers  which 
had  been  in  turns,  or  interchangeably,  called  the  "St.  Croix,' 
viz:  the  Magaquadavic,  easterly;  the  Schoodic,  (present  St. 
Croix,)  middle  ;  and  the  Cobscook,  westerly;  and  that  the  true 
St.  Croix  of  the  treaty  of  1783,  was  the  Magaquadavic.  But 
the  superior  finesse  of  the  British  on  the  "St.  Croix  commis- 
sion," in  1798,  succeeded  in  causing  the  Schoodic  to  be  per- 
manently called  the  St.  Croix, — and  thus  our  State  at  that  time, 
by  the  decision  of  this  commission,  lost  on  the  East  a  tract  of 
land  nearly  two  hundred  miles  long  by  about  thirty  broad. 

It  was  the  evident  determination  of  the  English  in  some  way 
to  get  land  enough  from  the  Eastern  and  Northern  sides  of 
Maine  to  afford  ample  room  for  all  desired  or  necessary  com- 
munication between  the  Canadas  and  New  Brunswick  and  Nova 
Scotia.  After  they  had  sliced  off  so  large  a  piece  from  the 
Eastern  part  of  the  StJite,  then  their  whole  force  was  redoubled 
to  gain  all  that  part  of  our  State  above  a  line  drawn  West  from 
Mars  Hill !  If  this  had  been  accomplished  the  size  of  the 
State  would  have  been  very  seriously  reduced.  The  outrage 
of  these  claims  will  almost  be  obvious  by  a  glance  at  any  map 
in  view  of  the  above  extracts  from  the  treaty. 

I  have  endeavored  to  picture  these  facts  of  our  great  losses 
of  territory,  North  as  well  as  East,  in  the  accompanying  map, 
where  are  shown  the  treaty  lines  of  1783,  in  which  the  red 
line  indicates  the  original  Eastern,  North  and  Northwesterly 


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boundaries;  the  yellow  line  across  the  State  and  down  the 
Eastern  side  represents  the  one  claimed  by  the  British,  some 
considerable  time  after  the  Treaty  of  1783,  as  the  Northern 
line  of  the  State,  not  always  confidently  but  with  increasingly 
loud  protestations  after  the  dispute  over  the  boundary  ques- 
tion had  waxed  warm;  the  present  Eastern  and  Northern 
boundary  lines  are  indicated  in  full  Wafetilines  and  by  the  St. 
John  River.  It  will  be  seen  at  a  glance  how  great  and  valu- 
able is  the  territory  which  we  lost  in  1798  and  1842. 

This  present  Northern  boundary  was  the  result  of  the  Ash- 
burton  Treaty  of  1842.  The  rule  devised  by  the  exalted 
statesmanship  of  that  treaty  seems  to  have  been  to  split  the 
differences  between  the  claims  of  the  two  parties.  But  it  is 
not  necessary  here  to  go  into  any  details,  since,  in  the  afore- 
said monograph,  by  Hon.  Israel  Washburn,  Jr.,  all  these  mat- 
ters are  set  out  with  careful  detail.  It  answers  all  my  present 
purposes  to  show  what  my  father  was  contending  for,  viz:  the 
territory  between  the  St.  John  River  and  tlie  highlands  of  the 
treaty  of  1783,  and  the  great  public  value  of  the  interests  con- 
cerned. These  mark  his  devotion  to  this  cause  as  the  charac- 
teristic of  a  large  minded  and  most  public  spirited  man.  The 
people  of  the  State  of  Maine  do,  I  am  sure,  now  fully  approve 
what  is  sometimes  called  Gov.  John  Fairfield's  declaration  of 
war  in  1838,  when  he  ordered  out  the  State  militia  to  defend 
our  territory,  as  we  then  claimed  it.  It  is  not  necessary  now 
to  enlarge  on  all  this.  It  is  an  historical  fact  which  the  peo- 
ple of  Maine  take  pride  in. 

But  I  should  have  dwelt  more  at  length  upon  the  character 
and  value  of  my  father's  public  services  in  connection  with 
this  Northeastern  Boundary  question,  if  the  matter  had  not 
many  years  ago  been  treated  of  very  kindly,  justly,  fully,  and 
ably,  as  will  appear  from  the  following  excellent  and  feeling 
tribute  to  his  memory  which  was  written  in  1839,  ^Y  Hon. 
Charles  S.  Davies,  LL.  D.,  of  Portland,  then  one  of  the  first 
lawyers  at  the  Cumberland  bar,  and  in  the  full  prime  of  a 
splendid  reputation  both  in  his  public  and  private  capacities. 
Mr.  Davies  had  been  repeatedly  called  upcn  to  act  a  very  dis- 


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tinguished  public  part  in  connection  with  this  very  North- 
eastern Boundary  question,  and  was  thoroughly  acquaint',  d 
with  all  the  men  who  had  had  any  connection  great  or  small 
in  this  very  important  matter.  He  knew  well  to  whom  praise 
belonged.  He  had  been  long  intimately  associated  with  Mr. 
Dcane  in  matters  Rertaining  to  the  Northeastern  Boundary 
question  ;  had  knoxrrr'lTim  as  a  legislator,  a  lawyer,  a  man  of 
business  and  affairs.  He  wrote  generously,  and  with  a  full  ac- 
quaintance of  everything  pertaining  to  the  subject. 

The  article  appeared  in  the  Portland  Advertiser  Tuesday 
evening,  November  19,  1839,  and  is  as  follows: 

"obituary    notice    of    JOHN    G.    DEANE. 

"On  Saturday  afternoon  were  committed  to  the  grave  the 
remains  of  John  G.  Deane.  They  had  been  removed  from 
Narraguagus,  (Cherryficld,)  where  he  expired  on  Sunday,  the 
lOth  inst.,  and  were  conveyed  from  his  late  residence  in  State 
street  to  the  South  Burying  Ground*  in  this  city,  attended  by 
his  family  and  friends.  The  deep  domestic  sorrow  was  ac- 
companied by  a  most  sincere  attestation  of  sympathy  and  re- 
spect. 

"The  decease  of  Mr.  Deane,  indeed,  thus  suddenly  occur- 
ring in  the  prime  of  life,  upon  an  occasional  absence  from 
home,  is  not  only  a  severe  private  loss,  but  it  is  also  a  great 
public  one.  To  estimate  it  properly,  it  is  necessary  to  refer  to 
the  memorial  of  the  past,  which  he  has  raised  for  himself  by 
his  talents  and  services,  inscribed  as  well  upon  the  tablet  of 
his  social  and  professional  relations,  as  upon  the  large,  labori- 
ous and  faithful  record  of  the  duties  which  he  has  performed 
to  the  public. 

"  If  there  was  any  among  us  who  had  a  right  to  stand  up  and 
say,  '  I  have  done  the  State  some  service,  and  they  know  it,' 
this  was  a  persuasion  of  which  Mr.  Deane  may  have  been 
justly  and  honestly  conscious;  and  so  marked  and  prominent 
an  object  of  consideration  and  esteem  has  he  been,  now  for  a 

♦OnBramhall's  Hill. 


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long  space  oi"  time,  in  the  view  of  the  people  of  Maine,  that  it 
needs  only  to  pronounce  Ms  name,  at  this  moment  of  unex- 
pected and  melancholy  be'eavement  to  those  who  cherish  his 
memory,  to  present  at  once  a  living;  and  expressive  image  of 
his  person,  character  and  virtues.  Who  in  this  land  did  not 
know  John  G.  Deane,  ano  who,  knowing  him,  would  be  likely 
soon  to  forget  him,  or  be  willing  to  suffer  his  honest  fame  to 
pass  into  silent  oblivion  ?  A  few  faint  traces  from  recollection 
and  from  the  slight  materials  at  iiand,  arc  all  that  is  proposed 
in  this  scant)'  and  hasty  notice  to  furnish. 

"  John  G.  Deane  was  a  native  of  the  Hay  State  of  Mas.sachu- 
.setts,  and  was  a  descendant,  it  is  stated,  of  John  Dean,  who 
early  came  to  that  old  colony  from  luigland,  and  settled  at 
Taunton,  the  stock,  it  is  supposed,  of  those  that  bear  that  nu- 
merous name  in  New  ICngland  and  who  ha\e  reflected  no  dis- 
honor on  the  fair  inheritance  of  their  Pilgrim  ancestors.  He 
was  himself  born  in  Ra)'nham,  and  was  a  graduate  of  Brown 
University,  in  Rhode  Island,  about  the  year  1806,  and  studied 
law,  it  is  understood,  with  the  late  Judge  Seth  I'adelford,  one 
of  whose  daughters  he  afterwards  married.  He  commenced 
the  practice  of  law  at  I'^llsworth,  in  this  State,  which  he  pur- 
sued w  ith  credit  and  success,  and  wlu:re  he  established  not 
only  the  solid  reputation  of  a  learned,  sound,  and  discriminat- 
ing lawyer,  but  enjoyed,  also,  in  an  eminent  degree,  the  gen- 
eral confidence  of  his  clients  and  fellow  citizens.  This  latter 
portion  of  public  favor  he  shared  with  his  friend  George  Her- 
bert, a  most  amiable  and  worthy  brother  of  the  profession, 
whose  fine  taste,  elegant  accomplishments  and  exquisite  sensi- 
bility, will  long  be  preserved  in  remembrance  by  those  who 
had  the  pleasure  and  privilege  of  his  personal  acquaintance. 
Ellsworth  being  entitled  to  but  one  representative  in  the  Leg- 
islature of  Massachusetts,  Mr.  Deane  was  chosen  alternately 
with  Mr.  Herbert  for  several  years,  and  was  a  member  of  that 
body,  it  is  believed,  as  early  as  ICS13.  He  was  marked  as  a 
man  of  talent,  spirit  and  apjilication. 

"Mr.  Deane's  location  in  the  Eastern  part  of  the  State,  and 
the  course  of  his  -professional  business  led  him  to  an  increas- 


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in^  acciuaintancc  with  the  proprietary  lands  in  this  State,  large 
tracts  of  which  were  lying  in  grants  from  the  Commonwealth 
of  Massachusetts,  the  principal  of  which  were  the  liingham 
I*urchases.  It  was  this  that  probably  first  turned  his  attention 
toward  that  subject,  which  afterwards  engaged  so  large  a  por- 
tion of  it,  in  one  very  important  direction.  After  the  separa- 
tion of  Maine.  Mr.  Deane  became  again  a  member  of  the  Leg- 
islature while  it  sat  in  Portland,  where  he  began  to  be  widely 
known  and  his  value  et|ually  understood,  lie  did  not  make 
that  his  place  of  residence,  however,  till  1835. 

"It  .vas  here,  during  the  sessions  of  1827  and  1828,  at  the 
period  v\hen  such  a  vigorous  impulse  was  given  to  the  vital  in- 
terests of  this  State  by  the  measures  adopted  by  Governor 
Lincoln  in  relation  to  our  territorial  rights,  that  Mr.  Deane 
distinguished  him.self  by  the  active  and  leading  pa.t  he  took, 
and  the  persevering  study  and  unwearied  diligence  he  be- 
stowed in  regard  to  the  perplexed  and  protracted  question  of 
our  Northeastern  Bcnmdary. 

"It  was  the  intrinsic  justice  as  well  as  the  strict  and  perfect 
legal  character  of  this  right  on  our  behalf  that  first  recom- 
mended itself  t^  'he  native  integrity,  while  it  presented  itself 
also  in  the  clearest  light  to  the  discriminating  sagacity  of  his 
mind,  and  inspired  that  honest  zeal  which  gave  such  a  con- 
centrated energy  to  all  his  powers  and  faculties  in  this  single 
cause.  It  was  this  that  urged  him  to  spare  no  pains,  to  relax 
no  effort,  to  lose  no  opportunity,  of  promoting  that  great  end 
in  which  he  then  and  thenceforward  entirely  and  almost  exclu- 
sively devoted  himself  I  le  shunned  no  labor,  and  thought 
no  day  long  in  which  he  could  do  anything  to  advance  it.  Of 
this  all-absorbing  and  to  him  engrossing  subject,  it  may  be 
truly  said,  that  he  summered  and  wintered  it.  He  ate,  drank, 
and  slept  it.  It  was  his  thought  by  day  and  his  dream  by 
night,  and  the  first  idea  to  which  he  awakened  again  in  the 
morning.  On  this  point  he  was  instant  in  season  and  out  of 
season.  He  was  ever  ready  and  alert  on  every  occasion  which 
presented,  and  prompt  for  every  service  which  the  interest  of 
the  State  demanded.     At  every  turn  and  crisis  of  the  question, 


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when  it  was  first  put  in  the  shape  of  a  Convention  and  about 
to  be  submitted  to  an  Arbiter,  or  swamped  by  his  preposter- 
ous award — when  our  citizens  were,  one  after  another,  seized 
and  consigned  to  foreign  prisons,  and  the  ensigns  of  an  ahen 
and  intrusive  jurisdiction  were  planted  on  our  independent 
soil — and  the  soverign  power  of  self-protection,  which  this 
political  community  was  bound  to  exercise  for  those  who  put 
their  trust  in  it,  insultingly  set  at  defiance — then  it  was  that 
his  spirit  rose  with  every  emergency;  it  quailed  at  no  peril  or 
trial  to  the  virtue  of  the  question,  and  sunk  only  with  any 
declension  of  its  interest,  of  which  there  were  spells  and  symp- 
toms in  the  public  mind.  It  was  only,  at  those  intervals  of 
repose  to  this  exciting  question  during  which  it  has  been  so 
strangely  and  inexplicably  adjourned,  that  the  ordinary  interT 
ests  and  occupatior  i  of  life  resumed  with  him  any  actual 
measure  of  their  importance  and  influence.  Never,  it  may  be 
nearly  said,  did  they  regain  their  real  ascendancy.  Still  the 
invincible  energy  of  his  spirit  on  that  predominating  subject 
was  not  to  be  subdued  or  broken  down.  No  danger  appalled, 
nor  difficulty  disheartened  him.  With  an  industry  that  noth- 
ing could  either  tire  or  escape ;  with  a  memory  faithful  to 
every  circumstance  that  it  ever  seized,  with  an  instinct  sure  as 
the  magnet,  and  a  soul  as  true  as  steel  to  the  cause  in  which 
he  was  embarked,  this  was  the  master  subject  of  his  mind. 

It  was  his  ruling  passion.  When  he  once  got  upon  this 
theme  "  his  foot  was  on  his  native  heath  and  his  name  was 
McGregor!  "  It  is  no  injustice  to  say  that  he  probably  mas- 
tered more  of  its  details,  historical,  statistical  and  geographical, 
connected  together,  than  any  other  individual,  and  that  he  had 
written,  .spoken,  and  printed,  it  might  almost  be  said  not  only 
more  than  any  other  person — but  more  than  all  others  put 
together.  No  one  engaged  in  the  various  calls  of  this  ques- 
tion had  looked  into  it  more  thoroughly,  or  was  more  inti- 
mately and  profoundly  acquainted  with  all  its  bearings.  If 
there  is  any  over  allowance  of  the  measure  of  merit  and  praise 
that  may  possibly  be  accorded  to  him  on  thi^  head,  it  can  be 
hardly  more  than  is  due  his  unbounded  and  indefatigable  de- 


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votions  to  this  supreme  object  which  ended  only  with  his 
breath. 

Mr.  Deane's  first  reports  o«  this  subject,  which  brought  the 
matter  most  distinctly  into  pubhc  view  were  made,  as  already 
adverted  to,  in  1827  and  1828.  In  1830  he  made  a  tour  of 
observation  over  the  ground  of  controversy  by  order  of  the 
Government,  in  immediate  connection  with  Judge  Preble.  In 
1 83 1  and  1832  he  again  became  conspicuous  for  the  part  he 
took  in  incorporating  the  precin'-t  of  Madawaska,  and  resist- 

T  the  no  doubt  well  intended  out  idle  and  absurd*  arbitra- 
ment  of  the  King  of  the  Netherlands.  It  was  on  this  account 
and  at  this  period  that  the  legislature  made  Mr.  Deane  a  grant 
of  a  half  township  of  land  on  the  upper  waters  of  the  St. 
John,  as  a  testimonial  (it  is  believed  unanimous,)  of  the  grate- 
ful sense  entertained  of  his  services.  This  grant  has  probably, 
however,  been  unproductive,  to  say  the  least,  owing  to  the 
distance  of  the  spot,  and  the  unsettled  state  of  the  question. 
Perhaps  it  was  the  design  that  Mr.  Deane,  who  had  been  its 
champion,  should  be  set  there  as  a  pioneer.  At  all  events» 
the  grant  and  the  post  should  be  made  good.  In  1838,  when 
the  Resolves  of  the  Legislature  for  an  ascertainment  and  sur- 
vey of  the  northeastern  boui\dary  of  the  State  were  required 
to  be  carried  into  execution  by  Governor  Edward  Kent,  Mr. 
Deane  was  the  person  at  once  designated  by  him,  as  most 
peculiarly  fitted  for  the  performance  of  that  important  duty. 
How  zealously  and  fai*"hfully  he  entered  upon  the  service  as- 
signed to  him,  striking  out  and  pursuing  his  own  route,  under 
the  general  directions  he  had  received,  leaving  nothing  unex- 
plored which  lay  within  his  reach,  and  not  quitting  the  ground 
until  it  was  covered  with  snow  too  deep  to  proceed  in  the 
search,  and  the  face  of  the  earth  was  obscured  from  further 
investigation,  his  recent  report  on  the  subject  fully  demon- 
strates. In  this  expedition  he  was  seconded  by  two  worthy 
and  useful  associates  whose  assistance  was  valuable  and  who 
justly  share  in  the  credit  of  the  undertaking.  The  new  map 
of  the  territoiy  which  he  prepared  from  this  survey  and  the 

♦This  line  was,  however,  the  one  adopted  a  few  years  later. 


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former  materials  at  his  command,  was  a  work  upon  which  he 
bestowed  great  pains  and  expens'^ ;  and  it  may  be  feared  that 
the  author  of  it  died  with  a  feeling,  that  his  task  in  this  report 
had  not  been  duly  appreciated  and  the  service  properly  con- 
sidered. It  is  still  to  be  hoped  that  this  important  labor  will 
not  fail  to  be  suitably  estimated. 

No  man,  it  may  be  said,  was  ever  more  inflexibly  tenacious 
of  his  own  just  purposes,  and  at  the  same  time  more  truly  re- 
gardful of  the  invariable  principles  of  right,  and  of  whatever 
was  due  to  the  proper  claims  of  others,  whether  few  or  many. 
He  was  simple  in  his  tastes,  undisguised  in  his  intentions,  plain 
and  transparent  in  all  his  aims,  unostentaiiOus,  and  even  neg- 
ligent in  regard  to  some  of  the  forms  and  observances  of  soci- 
ety. Like  Governor  Enoch  Lincoln,  he  loved  to  feel  himself 
in  the  sublime,  ennobling  presence  of  nature,  and  to  pierce 
the  vast,  profound,  unpeopled  solitudes  of  the  forest.  He 
liked  also  to  meet  the  remnant  of  the  ancient  race'of  proprie- 
tors in  their  native  woods,  or  on  the  streams  which  they  navi- 
gated in  their  bark  canoes — and  to  associate  and  hold  converse 
with  the  hardy  cultivators  of  tli  soil — although  these  genuine 
sympathies  did  not  estrange  him  from  the  more  busy  social 
haunts  of  men. 

The  cast  of  his  countenance  was  remarkably  intellectual  and 
indicative  of  acuteness,  foresight  and  sagacity.  It  had  also 
something  of  a  more  grave,  reflective  rad  resolved  character. 
The  upper  part  of  his  face,  particularly  the  intersection  of  the 
principal  features  bore  a  striking  resemblance  to  the  bust  of 
Alexander  Hamilton,  while  the  perpetual  activity  of  its  fibres 
in  their  animated  expression,  might  remind  one  who  had  seen 
the  original  of  the  incessant  motion  of  Lord  Brougham's.  He 
had  also  something  in  him  of  antiquity,  something  of  the  Cod- 
rus  and  the  Curtius — some  strain  of  that  Roman  spirit  of  self- 
sacrificing  patriotism  which  tells  in  the  stories  of  Horatius 
Codes  and  Mucius  Sc;evola — some  vein  too  of  the  Russells 
and  Sidneys  of  the  seventeenth  century — spirits  pre[)ared  for 
all  the  emergencies  of  moral,  political  and  physical  martyr- 
dom— for  the  ordeals  of  a  virtue  that  had  not  ceased  to  be 


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irore  than  an  empty  sound — and  aspiring  to  an  elevation  supe- 
rior to  the  sordid  subterfuges  of  shuffling  selfishness  and  com- 
promising expediency.  This  was  an  aspiration  worthy  of  the 
object  of  this  obituary  ;  and  there  was  that  within  him  which 
did  not  derogate  from  this  lofty  calling.  That  he  did  not  live 
to  see  the  end  of  all  his  travail  is  most  certain. 

But  he  lived  long  enough  to  see  the  cause  for  which  he  had 
labored  adopted  by  the  unanimous  voice  of  the  Congress  of 
the  United  States,  anH  its  justice  and  purity  acknowledged  by 
the  world.  And  b  no  less  certain  that  if  he  does  not  de- 
serve a  marble  monument  from  the  people  of  Maine,  he  de- 
serves a  monument  as  durable  as  marble  in  their  undying  re- 
membrance, affection  and  respect. 

In  the  multitude  of  emotions  that  throng  and  mingle  in  the 
mind  which  this  sudden  stroke  of  providence  is  calculated  to 
call  forth — amid  these  last  dying  traces  of  autumnal  change, 
when  the  splendid  month  of  November  is  speaking  the  great 
moral  lesson  of  the  year — if  there  was  nothing  else  in  this 
world — if  there  was  not  something  infinitely  superior  to  all  the 
visible  manifestations  of  the  material  universe  and  above  all 
that  this  glorious  organic  structure  is  capable  to  afford — we 
might  well  mourn  over  these  melancholy  vestiges  of  mortality 
and  decay.  If  it  were  not  otherwise,  were  it  not  for  higher 
hopes  and  the  interior  supports  of  a  sublimer  faith,  by  which 
the  spirit  is  sustained  in  its  far  upward  flight,  through  its  sink- 
ing moments  of  occasional  despondency,  it  would  be  sad  in- 
deed to  linger  upon  the  last  lineaments  of  the  departed  object 
of  our  affection  and  esteem,  the  features  so  lately  beaming  with 
animation  and  intelligence,  the  head  so  lately  full  of  important 
knowledge,  and  fervid  with  the  glowing  operations  of  genius 
and  intellect;  the  htjart  just  beating  with  the  most  ardent  pul- 
sations of  parental  love  and  patriotic  zeal,  now  silent  and  in- 
sensible, about  to  be  reduced  to  the  cold  clods  of  the  valley. 
Yet  there  is  still  something  in  the  circumstances  of  this  mourn- 
ful public  and  domestic  deprivation  to  produce  a  deep,  a  last- 
ing and  wholesome  impression. 


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"  The  memory 
Of  our  dying  friends  comes  o'er  us  like  a  cloud, 

To  (lamp  our  brainless  ardor,  and  abate 
That  glare  of  life  that  often  blinds  the  wise." 

HIS    FAMILY. 

*Mis.  Deane  survived  her  husband  and  resided  at  the  home- 
stead on  State  street,  Portland,  (with  the  exception  of  about  a 
year,  1869-70,  spent  with  her  sons  Llewellyn  and  William,  in 
Washington,  D.  C.,)  till  the  day  of  her  death,  May  12,  1872. 
Her  remains  were  interred  by  the  side  of  her  husband,  in  the 
Cemetery  on  Bramhall's  Hill  in  Portland.  They  were  the  parents 
of  eleven  children — two  died  in  infancy,  two  daughters  when 
comparatively  young;  John  was  lost  at  sea  in  1836  while  on  a 
voyage,  .is  supercargo  of  his  brig,  to  South  America.  Six 
sons  survived  him,  all  of  whom  grew  up  to  men's  estate. 

Joseph  became  a  lawyer,  lived  awhile  in  Chenyfield,  look- 
ing after  the  landed  interests  of  his  father's  estate ;  then  prac- 
ticed law  in  Taunton,  and  later  in  Quincy,  111  ,  where  he  died 
in  July,  1869. 

Melvin  was  a  civil  engineer.  In  his  youth  he  accompanied 
his  father,  in  1838,  on  his  last  excursion  to  the  Northeastern 
part  of  the  State.  He  was  engaged  in  the  construction  of 
several  railroads,  the  At.  &  St.  L.,  the  And.  &  Ken.  and  others. 
He  was  City  P^ngineer  of  Portland  in  1853-4,  and  died  there 
in  March,  1854. 

Henry  graduated  at "  Bowdoin,"  in  1844,  and  became  a  law- 
yer, represented  Portland  in  the  Legislature  of  1850-2,  was 
county  attorney  for  Cumberland  County,  1852-2,  and  later  was 
solicitor  for  the  city  of  Portland,  and  afterwards  surveyor, 
1868-70,  in  the  Custom  House.  He  died  in  Boston,  March, 
1873,  on  his  way  home  from  P'lorida.f 

F'rederick  graduated  at  "Bowdoin,"  in  1846,  and  became  a 
lawyer,  but  never  entered  on  the  practice,  as  the  gold  excite- 
ment of  those  days  bore  him  away  to  California,  where  he 
lived,  with  the  interval  of  a  short  visit  home,  till  1861,  when 


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he  entered  the  volunteer  service  and  was  an  officer  of  the  first 
California  Volunteers.  At  a  later  period  he  was  in  the  30th 
Maine  Rej^iment;  after  some  service  he  was  duly  commis- 
sioned an  officer,  but  the  war  closed  before  he  was  mustered 
in.  He  died  at  sea  in  March,  1867,  while  returning  to  Cali- 
fornia. 

Llewellyn  graduated  at  "Bowdoin,"  in  1849,  became  a  law- 
yer and  practiced,  in  partnership  with  Henry,  in  Portland  from 
1852  to  1 86 1.  In  1858  he  represented  Portland  to  the  Legis- 
lature. In  1 86 1  he  moved  to  Washington,  where  he  subse- 
quently held  an  important  position  in  the  Patent  Office.  In 
1873  he  resigned  his  official  position  and  has  since  practiced 
law  in  that  city. 

William  Wallace  became  a  lawyer  and  settled  in  Saccarappa. 
In  1 86 1  he  joined  the  12th  Maine  Infantry  and  afterwards 
became  Adjutant  of  the  Regiment.  In  1863  he  was  appointed 
Assistant  Adjutant  General  of  Volunteers,  with  rank  of  Cap- 
tain, and  at  the  close  of  the  war  was  breveted  Lieutenant  Col- 
onel in  that  branch  of  the  service.  In  1867  he  was  appointed 
Lieutenant  in  the  regular  army.  He  died  in  July,  1870,  in 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Melvin's  son  John,  while  a  mere  lad,  enli.sted  in  the  6th 
Maine  Battery,  and  later  became  Lieutenant  thereof.  He  was 
in  active  service  from  the  date  of  his  enlistment,  in  1862,  to 
the  close  of  the  war,  and  was  never  hurt  in  battle,  though  in 
every  fight  where  his  Battery  was  engaged,  and  was  never  in 
hospital  during  his  entire  service.  He  engaged  in  the  paper 
manufacturing  business  after  the  war,  and  died  in  the  fall  of 
1873.  No  doubt  the  toil,  duties  and  excitement  of  his  war  life 
hastened  his  end. 

Washington,  D.  C,  October  13,  1884. 


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read  at  the  meeting  of  said  Society  January  8,  1885,  l)y  Gen.  John  Marshall  Brown. 

It  is  now  copied  from  the  records  of  said  Society,  and,  with  their  permission,  a 
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This  touching  and  beautiful  tribute  to  the  memory  of  my 
mother  was  written  just  after  her  death  by  Rev.  J.  E.  Rankin, 
D.  D.,  now  of  Orange  Valley,  N.  J.,  but  who,  during  her  resi- 
dence in  Washington,  D.  C,  was  pastor  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  in  that  city,  and  greatly  beloved  by  her,  not 
only  as  her  minister,  but  because  of  his  unfailing  and  most 
affectionate  attentions  to  her.  It  was  printed  in  the  Congrega- 
tionalist  May  30,  1872.  , 

A    BEAUTIFUL    OLD    LADV. 


There  are  two  classes  toward  whom  my  heart  is  irresistibly 
•drawn  :  little  children  and  old  peofle.  Their  common  frailty, 
their  simplicity,  their  appreciation  of  little  attentions,  the  rela- 
tions of  confidence  which  they  are  so  ready  to  form,  their 
fidelity  of  affection,  all  combine  to  make  one  love  them  with  a 
kind  of  abandon  in  other  cases  impossible.  And  so  when  I 
found  among  my  people  here,  an  old  lady  with  gray  curls  and 
blooming  cheeks,  the  bloom  of  maturity,  of  a  green  old  age, 
cared  for  so  tenderly  by  a  son  who  was  with  her  like  a  shadow; 
when  she  remained  after  each  service  to  give  me  her  benedic- 
tion, and  to  show  how  she  rolled  the  truth  as  a  sweet  morsel 
in  her  mouth,  of  course  I  could  not  help  loving  her,  and  being 
thankful  that  God  was  giving  me  the  privilege  of  ministering 
to  her  in  her  last  days.     For  she  seemed  like  one  who  would 

"  Ne'er  be  fu'  content,  till  her  een  did  see. 

The  golden  gates  'o  heaven,  and  her  ain  countree." 

She  was  with  us  one  year,  delighting  us  all,  loved  by  us  all, 
and  then  she  returned  to  Portland,  Me.,  where,  for  so  many 
years  she  had  been  so  useful  and  so  honored,  in  connection 
with  the  High  Street  Church.  There,  as  a  widow,  having  also 
buried  five  children,  she  had  brought  up  the  remaining  six ; 


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she  had  been  the  foster-mother  to  nephews  and  nieces ;  she 
had  been  at  the  head  of  benevolent  societies,  her  home  the 
hospitable  center  for  ministers  and  missionaries;  her  heart  and 
her  purse  always  open  ;  her  hand  ready  for  every  good  work. 
And  there,  in  Portland,  in  the  householc'  of  her  eldest  surviv- 
ing son,  she  fell  asleep  in  Jesus,  May  I2t.i,  1872. 

This  beautiful  old  lady  was  Mrs.  Rebecca  D.  Deane,  the 
youngest  daughter  of  Hon.  Scth  Padelford,  LL.  D.,  of  Taun- 
ton, Mass.,  and  was  born  there.  May  27,  1792.  She  married 
John  G.  Deane,  Esq.,  of  Ellsworth,  Me.,  in  181C,  and  lived 
in  that  place  until  1835,  when  she  removed  to  Portland. 
Two  years  later  she  joinetl  the  High  Street  Church.  Her 
husband  was  a  Unitarian,  but  she  threw  her  decided  influence 
in  favor  of  the  doctrines  of  evangelical  religion,  of  which, 
some  of  her  children,  also,  have  proved  themselves  self-deny- 
ing and  enthusastic  advocates.  She  felt  very  much  the  failing 
of  her  natural  powers,  and  the  change  in  her  social  position 
which  was  the  result  of  her  advancing  years.  Slowly  faded 
from  her  memory  recollections  of  the  past,  even  of  husband 
and  children,  but  her  last  thoughts  and  expressions  were  of 
Jesus  and  Heaven,  and,  at  length,  released  from  the  burdens 
and  frailties  of  the  flesh,  she  went  to  see 

"The  King  in  iiis  beauty  in  her  ain  countree." 


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MEMORANDA   FROM   FAMILY  BIBLES  AND 
OTHER   SOURCES. 


THE    DEANE  SIDE. 

Family  of  Joseph  Deane,  of  Raynham,  /Tassachusetts,  fifth 
in  descent  from  John  Deane,  who  came  from  England,  and, 
with  his  brother  Walter,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Taunton,  Massachusetts. 

Joseph  Deane  was  born    in    Raynham,    November   20, 
1753,  and  died  February  16,  1837. 
He  married  January  10,  1783,  Mary,  daughter  of  Capt.  John 
Gilmore,  born  May  18,  1760,  and  died  May   10,  1837,  a  few 
months  after  her  husban^Vs  death. 

Their  children,  all  born  in  Raynham,  Mass.,  were — 

John  Gilmore,  born  March  27,  1785  ;  died  in  Cherry- 
field,  Maine,  November  10,  1839. 
Mary,  born  September  25,  1790;  died  August  10, 
1820;  married  Abiezer  Dean,  of  Taunton,  Mass., 
leaving  two  children,  Joseph  Albert  and  Elizabeth 
Hall. 
Joseph  Augustus,  born  June  25,  1802;  died  in  Ells- 
worth, Maine,  May  4,  1873;  married  Eliza,  daugh- 
ter of  Colonel  Nathaniel  Fales,  of  Taunton,  August 
17,  1830;  they  had  three  children.  Mary  Agnes, 
died  October  6,  1862;  Sabra  W.,  (now  Mrs.  Amory 
Otis,)  and  John  G.,  died  June  17,  184 1. 


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THE   PADELFORU   SIDE. 

Children   of  Setii  Padelfuru  and  Reuecca,  his  wife,  all 
born  in  Taunton,  Mass. 

Setm   PAnELEORi),  of  Taunton,   Mass.,  born  December   7, 
1751;  died  January  3,  i.Sio;  married  June   i,  1777,  to 
Rehecca  Dennis,  who  was  born  December  8,  1756,  and 
died  March  16,  1822. 
Their  children  were — 

Polly  Dennls,  born  April   13,  1778;  married  Mason 

Shaw,  of  J^an^or,  Maine;  died  May  19,  1805. 
EzEK'ELD.,bor<i  September  23,  1779;  died  October  27, 

1779. 
Sally  Kirby,  bora  October   27,   1780;    married  Na- 
thaniel Fales,  of  Taunton,  Mass.;  died  at  Quincy, 
Ills.,  November  26,  1858. 
Melinda,  born   February    14,    1782  ;  married   Enoch 
Brown,  of  Hampden,  Ma.ss, ;  died  January  23,  1836. 
John,  born  May  i,  1783;  died  June  29,  1801. 
Charles,  born  January   12,   1785;  died  P\'bruary  21, 

1785. 
Nancy,  born    March    14,   1786;    married   Samuel  E. 

Cooke,  of  Tiverton,  R.  I.;  died  October  21,  1817. 
Harry,   born    September   29,    1787;    married    Susan 

Crosman,  of  Taunton,  Mass.  ;    died    in  New  York 

about  1850. 
Rebecca,  born  1789;  died  1791. 
,    Rebecca  Dennis  who  married   John  G.  Deane,  and 

is  fully  spoken  of  el.sewhere  in  this  sketch. 
Caroline,  born  1794;  died  1796. 
Francis,  born  1796;  died  1798. 


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OUR   OWN    FAMILY. 


ChiUlrcn  of  John  G.  Deane  and  Reiiecca,  his  wife,  all  born 
in  I'^Usworth,  Maine  : 

Setii  I'adelfoki),  born  August  3,  1.S14;  died  August  21 
1814. 

John,  bom  November  14,  1815;  lost  at  sea  •  ">vember, 
1836. 

JosEiMi  P.,  born  September  29,  1817;  died  at  Quincy  Ills., 
Aii^u.st  19,  1869  ;  married  ICleanok  S.  Reed,  of  Taunton, 
Ma.ss.,  January  27,  1842. 

Marv,  born  October  8,  1818;  died  at  Portland,  May  14, 
1839. 

Rehecca  Padeleokd,  born  March  31,  1820;  died  at  Ells- 
worth, August  7,  1833. 

Melvin  Gilmore,  born  November  16,  1821  ;  died  at  Port- 
land, March  21,  1854;  married  Sarah  E.  Shepherd,  of 
Bristol,  R.  I,,  August  9,  18.3,  who  died  May  18,  1847  ; 
and  Harriet  A.  Thurston,  of  Winthrop,  Maine,  October 
12.  1848. 

Henky  Padelford,  born  October  9,  1823;  died  at  the 
Revere  Hou.se,  Boston,  en  route  from  P^lorida  to  Portland, 
March  25,  1873  ;  married  Annie  E.  Morse,  of  Brunswick, 
Maine,  March  23,  1848. 

Frederick  Augustu.s,  born  September  17,  1825;  died  at 
sea,  on  ship  "Majestic,"  en  route  to  California,  March  16, 
1867. 

Llewellyn,  born  September  17,  1827,  died  March,  1828. 

Llewellyn,  born  April  23,  1829 ;  married  Mrs.  L.  E.  Ricks, 
of  Washington,  D.  C,  August  29,  187 1. 

William  Wallace,  born  August  2,  1832;  died  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.,  July  21,  1870;  married  Abbie  Edward.s, 
of  Saccarappa,  Maine,  May  14,  1868. 


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MY    GRANDFATHER   AND    GRANDMOTHER 

DEANE. 

I  am  greatly  indebted  to  my  venerable  friend,  J.  W.  D.  Hall, 
of  Taunton,  Mass.,  for  the  following  sketch  of  my  paternal 
grandfather : 

Lieut.  Joseph  Deane  acquired  his  title  by  honorable  service 
in  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  left  his  farm  work  and  re- 
sponded to  the  "  alarm  call"  preceding  the  battle  of  Bunker's 
Hill,  a  young  man  of  twenty-three,  as  member  of  the  company 
which  marched  all  night  from  Taunton  to  Boston,  but  arrived 
too  late  to  join  in  that  engagement.  Lieut.  Deane  was  also  a 
member  of  one  of  the  two  Raynham  companies,  the  only  ones 
that  promptly  responded  ir.  1786  to  the  call  caused  by  the 
rumor  that  Shay's  Volunteers  were  coming  to  Taunton  to 
frighten  *  Gen.  (then  Judge)  Cobb,  and  seize  the  court  papers. 
He  was  familiarly  known  in  the  Raynham  days  of  my  boy- 
hood as  "  Uncle  Joseph."  He  was  a  cousin  of  my  grandfather, 
Nathaniel  Deane,  and  resided  only  a  fourth  of  a  mile  distant 
from  him.  Hundreds  of  times  have  I  been  over  the  grounds 
of  that  old  mansion  of  Uncle  Jo's.  There  stood  the  large,  old- 
fashioned  gambrel  roofed  house,  having  two  front  doors,  one 
"  for  company,"  and  facing  the  south.  The  garde."*  on  the 
west,  or  sunny  side,  was  one  of  the  handsomest,  laid  out  on  a 
side  hill,  in  terraces,  and  descending  twenty  feet  from  the  upper 
level  to  the  lower  tier,  where  an  immense  grape  vine  .spread 
its  branches  almost  entirely  over  two  large  apple  trees.  A  few 
rods  below  was  a  meadow  with  a  running  brook ;  this  afforded  a 
convenient  watering  place  on  the  road  near  by,  and  which  sepa- 
rated the  town  of  Raynham  from  Taunton.  It  was  one  of 
the  most  attractive  garden  spots  in  North  Raynham ;  choice 
roses  and  an  abundance  of  flowers  were  cultivated  there  by 
Mrs.  Deane.     A  spacious  grass  plat,  with  walks,  lay  in  front 

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of  the  house,  and  on  the  east  was  a  large  wood  house,  and 
near  the  old  cider  mill,  where  neighbors  resorted  with  their 
cart  loads  of  apples  to  convert  into  cider,  at  free  cost,  and  be- 
yond this  the  mill,  the  corn  crib,  and  two  large  barns  for  the 
stock.  The  old  orchard  in  rear  of  the  cider  mill  bore  the  best 
of  apples,  and  we  boys  were  always  welcomed  by  "  Uncle 
Joseph"  to  help  ourselves.  In  fact,  he  was  pleased  to  have  us 
eat  the  fine  fruit  that  covered  the  ground  beneath  those  large 
trees. 

But  as  I  pass  that  way  in  recent  years,  I  can  hardly  repress 
tears  of  sadness,  as  I  witness  the  utter  desolation  that  marks 
the  spot  so  pleasing  to  my  eyes  seventy  years  ago.  Scarcely 
a  landmark  remains.  The  house  and  a  portion  of  the  build- 
ings were  destroyed  by  fire  forty  years  ago;  the  remaining 
out-buildings  were  soon  after  removed,  and  that  elegant  ter- 
raced garden  has  given  place  to  a  waste  of  weeds  and  grass, 
the  splendid  rose  bushes  having  "  run  wild  to  decay." 

Had  your  father  remained  at  that  nice  old  home,  we  should 
not  have  read  any  of  his  enterprising  feats  in  the  "  District  of 
Maine,"  which  he  helped  to  make  a  State  in  1820,  and  his  able 
reports  on  "  the  Northeastern  Boundary."  Still,  he  might  have 
emigrated  to  Taunton,  and  achieved  fame  by  a  seat  on  the 
bench,  which  his  judicial  ability  would  have  enabled  him  tO' 
fill  with  honor. 

Aside  from  the  fact  that  "  Uncle  Joseph"  served  his  country 
faithfully  in  the  Revolutionary  struggle  "  for  liberty  and  union," 
and  was  a  careful,  painstaking  farmer,  and  was  loved  and  re- 
spected by  all  his  neighbors  and  townsmen,  I  know  but  little 
to  write.  A  farmer's  life  is  rather  monotonous  and  common- 
place. His  wife,  "Aunt  Polly,"  as  we  called  her,  was  a  very 
intelligent  woman,  who  possessed  fine  conversational  powers, 
and,  like  her  husband,  was  much  beloved.  Their  only  daughter, 
Mary,  who  married  my  uncle,  Abiezer  Deane,  and  resided  in 
Taunton  until  her  death,  August  10,  1820,  was  very  like  her 
mother  in  her  amiable  and  beautiful  charr^ter  and  life. 

Uncle  Joseph's  brother  Clifford  was  also  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  war,  and  was  killed  in  the  prime  of  life  at  the 


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taking  of  New  York  by  the  British  in  1776.  He  had  also  a 
brother  David,  a  farmer,  who  resided  in  Taunton,  a  third  of  a 
mile  distant,  a  very  worthy,  quiet  man.  He  also  had  five  sis- 
ters ;  one  married  a  Williams,  one  a  Carver,  another  a  Jones, 
and  another  Major  John  Gilmore,  one  of  the  most  prominent 
men  in  Raynham,  for  whom  your  father  was  named ;  and  still 
another  single  sister,  Charity. 

Your  grandparents  were  a  most  worthy  old  couple,  and  now, 
though  approaching  my  four-score  milestone,  my  boyhood 
memories  of  them  and  theirs  are  fresh  and  vivid  as  ever.  My 
grandfather's  homestead,  where  I  resided  after  the  death  of 
my  father,  from  the  age  of  four  to  fifteen,  joined  the  former, 
and,  as  I  muse  upon  the  early  impressions  of  those  days,  the 
familiar  scenes  come  thronging  into  my  mind  as  cheering  rem- 
iniscences ;  and  while  there  is  a  sadness  that  those  who  min- 
gled in  them  have  all  passed  away,  we  may  cheerish  the  hope 
of  meeting  them  again.     1 


The  following,  also,  relating  to  my  grandparents,  I  copy 
from  full  and  most  valuable  family  data  left  by  my  uncle  Jos- 
eph A.  Deane,  of  Ellsworth,  Maine,  and  kindly  sent  me  by  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Sabra  W.  D.  Otis. 

My  parents  resided  in  North  Raynham,  about  three  rods 
from  the  Taunton  line.  My  father  owned  three  farms,  which 
are  now  crossed  by  the  old  Colony  Railroad  ;  it  crosses  his 
homestead  about  100  rods  east  of  where  his  house,  which  was 
built  in  1840,  formerly  stood.  My  father  was  an  honest  and 
upright  farmer.  I  do  not  believe  that  he  ever  defrauded  man, 
woman  or  child,  of  the  value  of  a  farthing  in  his  long  life.  It 
was  a  saying  in  the  neighborhood,  "as  honest  as  Uncle  Jo." 
He  was  not  rich,  but  what  farmers  call  "  well  off;"  he  had 
plenty  of  land,  plenty  of  cattle,  and  all  that  he  desired,  and 
several  thousand  of  dollars  at  interest ;  he  allowed  all  the 
poor  men  in  the  country  round  to  get  in  debt  to  him,  some  of 
them  to  the  extent  of  fifties,  and  some  of  them  as  much  as 


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hundreds,  without  pay.  He  never  drummed  hard,  and  never 
forced  anyone  to  pay.  He  never  held  or  sought  office;  but, 
on  the  other  hand,  refused  to  accept  office  when  solicited.  He 
was  repeatedly  chosen  a  selectman  of  the  town,  and  once  rep- 
resentative to  the  legislature,  but  could  not  be  persuaded  by 
his  many  friends  to  accept  either  office. 

He  entered  the  revolutionary  army  immediately  after  the 
fight  at  Concord  and  Lexington,  first  under  Capt.  Noah  Hall, 
of  Raynham,  afterwards  of  Gouldsborough,  Maine.  His  first 
service  was  two  months  at  Dorchester  Heights,  afterwards,  as 
a  regular,  several  years  in  the  Continental  army.  When  a 
pension  was  granted  by  Congress  to  the  poor  soldiers  my  father 
did  not  apply  for  one.  After  1832,  when  poverty  was  not  re- 
quisite to  entitle  a  soldier  to  a  pension,  his  name  was  placed 
upon  the  pension  rolls,  and  so  continued  until  his  death.  He 
was  killed  by  a  fall  on  the  ice  February  i6th,  1837.  He  had 
been  in  feeble  health  during  the  winter,  and  in  fact  several 
years.  On  that  day,  in  the  afternoon,  he  fell,  was  carried  to 
the  house  and  placed  upon  his  bed.  He  soon  fell  asleep,  and 
died  without  a  struggle  or  any  distress,  and  in  his  eighty-third 
year. 

My  mother,  Mary  Gilmore,  was  an  active  and  energetic 
woman,  her  life  was  prolonged  for  many  years  by  her  energy 
and  activity;  she  was  as  honest  and  just  as  my  father;  she 
was  .generous,  yet  without  her  my  father  would  have  been 
possessed  of  less  property  ti.an  he  acquired.  They  commenced 
housekeeping  at  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  when  everybody 
nad  learned  to  economize.  Nothing  was  wasted  in  her  house, 
but  all  were  fed,  and  well  fed.  The  table  was  ever  free  to  all. 
They  always  agreed  perfectly  ;  I  never  heard  an  angry  word 
pass  between  them  ;  they  were  ever  of  one  mind  and  in  accord 
in  all  things.  My  mother  was  not  robust,  the  dread  disease, 
consumption,  was  long  lingering  in  her  system,  even  before 
my  birth.  Almost  every  year  she  had  such  attacks  that  our 
neighbors  would  despair  of  her  recovery,  but  soon  as  she 
gained  strength  she  was  up,  and  her  energy  made  her  appear 
as  if  well,  and  so  she  lived  along  until  my  father  was  gone. 


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and  about  eleven  weeks  after  his  death,  on  the  very  eve  of  her 
decease,  she  drove  her  carriage  alone  seven  miles  after  sunset, 
and  died  in  less  than  three  hours  after  she  entered  the  house. 
Had  she  yielded  to  her  disease  and  given  up,  as  many  do,  she 
would  '  ive  been  in  her  grave  many  years  earlier.  She  was 
strictly  and  conscientiously  honest  and  just,  resolute  and  per- 
severing, and  a  very  strong-minded  woman. 

Neither  of  my  parents  ever  made  a  profession  of  religion  or 
joined  the  church,  but  they  both  were  constant  in  their  attend- 
ance at  meetings,  and  I  feel  that  I  had  rather  take  their  chance 
for  happiness  hereafter  than  that  of  thousands  upon  thousands 
of  professed  Christians. 

The  following  obituary  notice  of  my  grandfather  appeared, 
I  think,  in  a  Taunton  paper  : 


!  "  DIED. 


"  In  Raynham,  on  the  i6th  inst,  Mr.  Joseph  Deane,  in  the 
83d  year  of  his  age.  Few  men  have  lived  so  long  a  life  so 
well.  He  was  an  Israelite  indeed,  in  whom  was  no  guile. 
Though  from  anxious  solicitude  to  do  right  he  postponed,  till 
late  in  life,  a  public  profession  of  his  faith  in  Christ ;  yet  from 
the  early  dawn  of  his  reason  he  lived  the  life  of  a  Christian. 
So  pacific,  correct  and  uniform  were  his  spirit  and  manners 
that  no  one  could  or  did  say  aught  against  him.  The  nearest 
inmate  of  his  house  could  say  that  even  there  he  was  never  seen 
to  be  fretful  or  angry.  Fair  in  all  his  contracts,  and  punctual 
in  his  promises,  he  ever  sustained  the  honor  of  an  honest  man. 
He  cheerfully  gave  a  portion  of  his  income  for  the  support  of 
the  ministry;  and  the  house  of  God,  when  his  health  permitted, 
was  his  natural  home  on  the  Sabbath,  Long  was  he  tried 
with  a  most  painful  disorder,  but  pain  it  seemed,  could  not 
disturb  the  serenity  of  his  mind.  As  he  lived  so  he  died,  in 
perfect  resignation  and  calmness.  '  Blessed  are  the  dead  who 
die  in  the  Lord.'  " 


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The  following  about  my  father  appears  in  my  Uncle's 
notes : 

John  G.  Deane,  Esq.,  was  an  eminent  lawyer  at  Ellsworth, 
Maine,  for  many  years.  He  subsequently  entered  into  land 
speculations  and  became  very  rich,  on  paper ;  he  was  a  promi- 
nent agitator  of  the  North  Eastern  Boundary  question,  and 
wrote  many  articles  on  the  subject.  He  died  suddenly  at 
Cherryfield,  November  lo,  A.  D.  1839,  in  the  55th  year  of  his 
age  ;  his  death  was  caused  by  an  over  dose  of  tartar-emetic, 
taken  by  mistake  for  cream  of  tartar  with  which  it  was  mixed. 
He  resided  in  Portland,  on  State  street,  several  years  before 
his  death.  His  remains  were  carried  to  Portland,  and  deposited 
in  the  South  Cemetery,  where  the  remains  of  his  daughter 
Mary  were  deposited  the  year  previous. 

He  possessed  a  strong  mind,  a  great  memory  and  sound 
judgment.  His  effects,  after  his  decease,  were  appraised  at 
$200,000,  besides  a  large  quantity  of  worthless  paper ;  but  the 
appraisal  was  far  above  the  amount  realized  by  his  heirs.  At 
the  time  of  his  dece?.se  he  had  corrected  and  was  about  to 
publish  a  new  m;ip  of  Maine  ;  the  map  was  published  after  his 
decease.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  Selectmen  of  Ellsworth  for 
nearly  twenty  years ;  he  was  Commandant  of  the  Cobb  Light 
Infantry  in  the  war  of  181 2,  afterwards  commanded  the  Regi- 
ment. He  also  held  many  other  offices  of  trust ;  he  was  very 
modest  and  unassuming ;  had  he  asked  for  them,  he  might 
have  had  any  offices  in  the  gift  of  the  people. 


GRANDFATHER    PADELFORD. 

The  following  beautiful  sketch  of  my  grandfather,  Seth 
Padelford,  of  Taunton,  Mass.,  was  written  by  my  friend  J.  W. 
D.  Hall,  of  Taunton,  Mass.,  in  the  spring  of  1885,  in  his  78th 
year. 

"  Hon.  Seth  Padelford,  was  born  in  Taunton,  in  Decem- 


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ber,  1750,  fifth  in  descent  from  Jonathan,  the  emigrant  of 
1628-30,  and  son  of  John  and  Jemima  Padelford.  He  was  grad- 
uated at  Yale  College  in  1770.  After  completing  his  studies 
he  entered  the  profession  of  law  and  became  a  prominent 
counsellor.  He  married  Rebecca,  (daughter  of  Abraham 
Dennis,)  born  1756,  died  1822,  and  they  had  eleven  children, 
the  ninth  being  Rebecca  Dennis,  who  married  Col.  John  Gil- 
more  Deane.  In  1798,  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  Brown  University.  Judge  Padelford  was  an  able 
and  sound  legal  counsellor,  and  many  years  stood  the  acknow- 
ledged head  of  the  Bristol  bar.  He  was  county  Treasurer  in 
1783,  and  for  twenty  years,  from  1790,  to  January  7th,  18 10, 
the  day  of  his  death,  was  Judge  of  Probate  of  the  county 
of  Bristol,  to  the  universal  satisfaction  of  the  people.  He  was 
a  Free  Mason,  and  the  first  Master  of  King  David  Lodge,  of 
Taunton.  He  was  esteemed  as  the  conscientious  lawyer,  the 
humane  and  unexceptionably  upright  judge,  to  whom  all  cases 
within  his  jurisdiction  were  referred  with  implicit  confidence  in 
his  decisions  as  the  "  protector  of  the  widows  and  orphans,"  and 
just  to  all.  He  died  in  the  vigor  of  manliood,  beloved  and 
honored  by  the  whole  community.  He  resided  from  1777  to 
1 8 10,  in  the  fine  old  mansion  on  the  Northwest  corner  of  the 
"  green,"  or  "  ancient  training  field,"  adjoining  the  old  Court 
House  and  county  offices.  This  mansion  was  built  in  1757, 
bj''  Ratcliffe  Hellon,  a  merchant,  who  occupied  it  a  few  years. 
After  him  it  was  owned  by  several  persons,  till  1770,  when  it 
came  into  the  possession  of  the  brilliant  Daniel  Leonard, 
author  of  the  celebrated  pamphlet  "  Massachusettensis,"  who 
became  a  loyalist  (or  toiy)  in  the  days  of  1776,  and  fled  from 
Tauj  on  and  joined  the  British  at  Boston.  After  he  left  Judge 
Padelford  purchased  the  house.  It  has,  since  his  decease, 
been  nicely  kept  up,  and  though  removed  in  18 17  a  short  dis- 
tance and  divested  of  shrubbery  in  front,  yet  wears  the  same 
general  aspect  that  it  did  in  my  boyhood  days  after  Judge 
Padelford's  decease." 

In  the  same  connection  the  following  extract  is  made  from 


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an  article  contributed  by  Rev.  S.  Hopkins  Emery,  of  Taunton, 
in  1883,  to  the  History  of  Bristol  County,  Massachusetts  : 

"  He  was  a  highly  dignified  and  polished  gentleman,  of  great 
integrity  of  character,  and  he  was  favored  with  a  wife  who 
adorned  the  society  in  which  she  moved.  Long  after  they 
ceased  to  be  among  the  living  of  earth,  their  praise  was  in  the 
mouth  of  those  who  remembered  their  wide  and  commanding 
influence. 

"Judge  Padelford  died  January  7,  1810,  aged  58  years  and 
one  month.  On  the  stone  slab  which  covers  his  remains  on 
the  '  Plain,'  is  the  following  inscription  : 

"  '  For  he  was  wise  to  know  and  warm  to  praise  and  strenu- 
ous to  transcribe  in  human  life  the  mind  almighty.'  " 


I 


UNCLE  AUGUSTUS. 

Mr.  Hall   sends  me  the  following  brief  record  about  my 
uncle,  J.  Augustus  Deane  : 

"Joseph  Augustus  Deane  (sixth  from  John  and  Alice  Deane, 
of  Taunton,)  was  the  second  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Gilmore 
Deane,  of  Raynham,  Mass.,  born  June  25,  1802.  After  work- 
ing upon  the  old  homestead  of  his  father  and  attending  public 
school  and  a  season  at  Bristol  Academy,  until  1 8  years  of  age, 
he  went  to  Ellsworth,  Me.,  in  1820,  and  entered  the  office  of 
his  brother,  Col.  John  G.  Deane,  as  a  student  at  law.  In  August, 
1 82 1,  he  left  his  studies  and  engaged  as  clerk  in  the  store  of 
Col.  John  Black,  in  Ellsworth,  and  became  a  partner  in  the 
business  at  twenty-one,  remaining  a  few  years.  In  1833  he 
was  appointed  clerk  of  the  court  of  Hancock  County,  and  set- 
tled at  Castine,  then  the  shire  town,  remaining  there  until 
superseded  in  1838.  He  was  reappointed  in  1839,  with  the 
ofi^iCe  at  Ellsworth,  and  again  superseded  in  1841.  During  a 
portion  of  the  intervening  years,  Mr.  Deane  was  engaged  in 
land  surveying,  of  which  few  men  in  the  State  had  more  scien- 
tific and  accurate  knowledge,  as  he  had  made  it  a  study  in  his 


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younger  days,  theoretically  and  practically,  and  afterwards 
under  the  skillful  instructions  of  his  brother.  In  consequence 
of  his  business  and  official  occupations  he  had  not  received 
an  admission  to  the  bar  until  1844,  after  which  he  continued 
in  practice  at  Ellsworth  many  years,  except  at  intervals  when 
holding  the  deputy  collectorship  at  Gouldsboro',  under  Demo- 
cratic rule.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  from  convic- 
tion and  on  principle,  and  though  earnest  in  his  convictions 
was  always  an  honest  politician.  After  his  clerkship  ended 
he  never  again  sought  office.  He  possessed  a  remarkably 
retentive  memory  of  political  and  historical  data  and  events, 
was  an  extensive  reader,  fond  of  books,  and  collected  a  large 
library.  His  general  historical  information  of  the  world  was 
excelled  by  very  few  men.  His  knowledge  of  the  topography 
of  the  State  and  his  immediate  county  was  remarkable  in  ac- 
curacy. Possessing  rare  conversational  and  persuasive  pow- 
ers, he  was  very  entertaining  and  genial  in  interviews  with  his 
friends.  He  was  kind  hearted,  sympathetic  and  liberal  to  a 
fault.  In  person  he  was  about  six  feet  two  inches  tall  ;  com- 
plexion, light ;  robust,  but  not  stout.  In  early  years  his  hair 
was  of  a  brownish  tint.  When  I  saw  him  last,  in  1873,  his  full 
white  beard  gave  him  quite  a  patriarchal  appearance,  but  he 
was  in  the  entire  possession  of  all  his  mental  faculties,  and  as 
interesting  as  ever  in  conversation. 

"August  17,  1830,  Col.  J.  A.  Deane  married  Eliza,  daughter 
of  Col.  Nathaniel  Pales,  of  Taunton,  Mass.;  they  had  three  chil- 
dren, viz.,  Mary  A.,  born  July  11,  1831,  died  October  6,  1862; 
Sabra  W.,  born  October  31,  1832;  John  Gilmore,  born  July 
27,  1839,  ^^^^  ]^^^  ^7>  1 841.  Mrs.  Deane  died  October  16, 
1869.  Sabra  rr  /ied  Amory  Otis,  of  Ellsworth.  Mr.  Otis 
died  August  25Ln,  1872,  in  his  58th  year.  Mrs.  Otis  is  now  a 
resident  of  Ellsworth." 


On  page  9  I  have  mentioned  the  fact  that  my  parents  cared 
for  their  orphaned  neices  and  nephews : 

Among  these  were  Ann  P.  Cook,  daughter  of  my  aunt 
Nancy  (daughter  of  Judge  Padelford)  and  Samuel  E.  Cook. 


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She  was  long  an  inmate  of  our  family  in  Ellsworth,  and  came 
with  us  to  Portland.  About  1836  she  married  J.  Tilden  Moul- 
ton,  son  of  Dr.  Moulton,  of  Bucksport,  and  graduate  of  Bow- 
doin  College,  in  the  class  of  1830.  They  first  resided  at 
Columbia,  but  in  a  short  time  moved  to  Cherryfield.  (On 
page  14  it  is  said  that  my  father  died  at  their  residence.  Since 
that  form  was  struck  off  I  learn  that  this  sad  event  took  place 
at  Miss  Nash's  boarding  house,  where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moulton 
were  in  constant  attendance  upon  my  father.)  My  uncle 
Augustus,  in  his  memoranda,  from  which  I  have  elsewhere 
quoted,  says:  "  Her  native  talents  were  very  superior,  and  had 
they  been  properly  cultivated  she  would  have  been  a  very 
brilliant  woman."  I  remember  well  a  local  reputation  she  had 
as  a  poetess.  They  had  one  son  and  several  daughters.  She 
died  about  1845. 

Another  daughter,  Rebecca  P.,  was,  for  many  years  after 
her  parents'  death,  with  my  grandparents  Deane,  and  after 
their  decease  was  as  much  a  member  of  our  family,  and  re- 
garded by  us  all  as  our  own  sister.  About  1858  she  married 
Alvah  Conant,  Esq.,  of  Portland,  with  whom  she  lived  very 
happily  till  her  death,  about  1864. 


The  following  is  copied  from  the  "  Daily  Press"  of  Portland, 
April  9,  1873: 

"  Henry  P.  Deane. — Action  of  the  Cumberland  Bar. 


"At  the  close  of  the  calling  of  the  docket  of  the  Supreme 
Court  yesterday,  Hon.  Nathan  Webb,  Vice-President  of  the 
Cumberland  Bar  Association,  presented  the  following  resolu- 
tions in  reference  to  the  late  Henry  P.  Deane,  Esq.,  with  ap- 
propriate remarks: 

"  The  Committee  appointed  by  the  Cumberland  Bar  Associa- 
tion, at  its  last  meeting,  March  26th,  to  prepare  resolutions 
relative  to  the  death  of  the  late  Henry  P.  Deane,  Esq.,  to  pre- 


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sent  to  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  at  the  approaching  term, 
having  attended  to  that  duty,  beg  leave  to  report  the  following : 

"  WhereaSy  it  has  pleased  Divine  Providence  to  remove  from 
earthly  associations  our  friend  and  brother,  Henry  P.  Deane : 

*'  Jiesolvedj  That  we  deeply  lament  his  death,  and  shall  sor- 
rowfully miss  his  pleasant  face  and  cordial  greeting. 

"  Mesolvedf  That  our  departed  associate,  by  his  energy,  zeal 
and  talent,  as  well  as  by  his  fidelity  to  the  duties  of  a  coun- 
sellor, and  by  his  courtesy  to  his  professional  associates,  de- 
servedly gained  an  honorable  standing  at  this  Bar. 

"  liesolved,  That  by  his  decease  this  community  has  lost  a 
valuable  citizen,  this  Bar  an  esteemed  comrade,  his  friends  a 
generous  friend,  who,  in  the  various  and  responsible  duties  he 
has  been  called  to  discharge,  has  never  failed  to  secure  respect 
and  approval. 

"  liesolved,  That  we  sympathize  with  his  afflicted  family,  and 
that  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  authenticated  by  the  officers 
of  our  Association  be  communicated  to  them. 

"  The  resolutions  were  seconded  by  Byron  D.  Verrill,  P^sq., 
who  spoke  as  follows  : 

"  31ay  it  please  your  Honor : — In  accordance  with  a  request 
of  the  committee  and  a  vote  of  the  Association,  I  beg  leave  to 
second  these  resolutions.  They  fittingly  express  the  senti- 
ments I  am  sure  we  all  entertain. 

"  So  frequently  are  we  called  to  mourn  the  loss  of  some 
esteemed  brother — often,  as  in  this  instance,  in  the  very  prime 
of  his  manhood — that  we  can  but  realize  the  shado./y  uncer- 
tainty of  mortal  life.  In  such  a  case  as  this  it  is  sad  indeed  to 
think  of  severing  strong  earthly  ties  ;  but  it  is  pleasant  to  re- 
flect that  our  departed  brother  was  worthy  of  all  the  praise  we 
may  bestow.  I  measure  my  words.  I  speak  of  Henry  P. 
Deane  as  I  have  known  him  in  the  intimate  business  and  social 
relations  of  the  last  six  years.  To  know  him  intimately  was 
to  esteem  him  highly,  and  I  have  been  impressed  with  a  deep 
sense  of  his  manly  worth. 

"  His  standard  of  moral  duty  was  high,  and  by  that  standard 


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he  was  governed — I  may  say  rigidly  governed — in  his  daily 
business  transactions.  Scrupulously  and  minutely  exact  in  his 
dealings  with  all  men,  he  was  equally  honest  in  all  things  large 
and  small.  Tenacious  of  his  own  rights,  he  was  also  consid- 
erate of  the  rights  of  others. 

"Always  faithful  to  the  interests  of  his  clients,  I  believe  he 
never  forgot  the  duties  and  obligations  of  his  profession.  His 
investigation  of  legal  question.^  vas  habitually  thorough,  careful 
and  painstaking  to  the  last  degree,  so  that  as  a  prudent  and 
.safe  counsellor  he  had  few  equals.  His  caution  was  very 
marked,  but  his  zeal  was  unbounded ;  and  into  every  under- 
taking which  met  the  sanction  of  his  judgment  and  the  approval 
of  his  conscience,  he  threw  his  whole  soul,  sparing  no  labor, 
neglecting  no  effort,  yielding  to  no  obstacle  that  was  in  any 
way  superable. 

"  His  tastes  were  decidedly  literary  and  social.  In  addition 
to  the  studies  and  labors  of  his  profession  and  other  affairs  in 
which  he  engaged,  he  gave  no  little  attention  to  general  litera- 
ture, and  especially  to  historical  and  political  learning. 

"  Enthusiasm  was  a  marked  characteristic  of  our  lamented 
brother.  I  hav^e  never  known  another  who  enjoyed  all  the 
amenities  and  luxuries,  and  even  the  commoi-places  of  life 
with  so  keen  a  relish.  Nature  freely  yielded  to  his  senses  her 
inexhaustible  charms,  and  his  geniality  was  overflowing.  And 
yet,  notwithstanding  the  fervent  order  of  his  temperament,  he 
was  conspicuously  tempered  in  all  things. 

"  His  nature  was  also  sensitive  and  sympathetic,  and  a  dis- 
criminating, unostentatious  charity  was  one  of  his  great  vir- 
tues. His  affections  were  strong  and  deep,  and  his  friendships 
whole-souled.  In  whom  he  confided,  his  confidence  was  im- 
plicit ;  in  whom  he  trusted,  his  faith  was  supreme.  Such  also 
was  his  faith  and  such  his  trust  in  God — firm  and  unshaken. 
No  fear  of  death,  no  doubts  of  the  future  seemed  ever  to  disturb 
his  mind.  Nevertheless,  such  and  so  strong  were  his  affec- 
tions, so  congenial  the  associations  of  life,  society,  literature 
and  business,  and  so  inexpressibly  tender  the  endearments  of 
a  beautiful,  happy  home  and  its  loved  ones,  that  he  clung 


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firmly  co  life  ami  stru^'j^lcil  lon^^  and  manfiilly  against  the  cn- 
croachrncnts  of  disease  ;  preparing;  and  arran^in^  his  business 
months  ago  for  the  worst,  he  still  remained  liopeful  and  cheer- 
ful to  the  last.  Alas,  how  often  is  this  sad  story  repeated  1 
One  after  another  of  our  brotherhood  Death  taps  upon  the 
shoulder ;  we  vanish,  and  the  places  which  have  known  us 
know  us  no  more  forever.  Only  the  memory  of  the  departed 
is  left  us — a  sweet  antl  hallowed  memory  to  be  sacredly  cher- 
ished until  we,  too,  shall  answer  the  sure  and  final  summons, 
and  go  to  join  the  brotherhooil  beyond  the  tlark  river. 


"Judge  Goddard  spoke  as  follows: 

*' May  it  please  the  Court: — I  am  unwilling  to  allow  this  occa- 
sion to  pass  without  offering  a  brief  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
my  departed  schoolmate  and  frientl  who  was  for  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century  my  associate  at  this  bar. 

"  Mr.  Deane  died  in  Hoston  on  Tuesday,  the  25th  of  last 
month,  in  the  fiftieth  year  of  his  age,  while  on  his  homeward 
journey  from  Florida,  whither  he  had  gone  a  few  weeks  before 
in  the  hope  of  restoring  his  failing  health. 

"  He  was  a  son  of  the  late  John  G.  Deane,  ICsq.,  and  a  native 
of  Ellsworth,  but  he  came  with  his  parents  to  this  city  while 
yet  a  boy,  and  pursued  his  academical  studies  here,  entering 
Bowdoln  College  in  1840,  and  graduating  with  high  honors  in 
1844.  In  the  office  of  Willis  &  Fesscnden  he  prepared  him- 
self for  the  bar,  and  was  admitted  in  1847.  Two  years  after, 
at  the  age  of  26,  he  was  chosen  a  representative  from  this  city, 
and,  having  been  -"-olected,  served  at  the  sessions  of  the  30th 
and  31st  Legislr 

"  In   1852  expiration  of  his  legislative  term,  he  was 

chosen  Att  for  this  county,  performing  the  responsible 

duties  of  that  office  for  three  years.  In  1862  he  was  elected 
City  Solicitor,  serving  two  years.  In  1867  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Johnson  Surveyor  of  this  Port,  an  office  which 
he  filled  for  three  years. 

"  For  several  years  before  his  death  he  had  been  a  director  of 
the  P.  &  R.  R.  Co.,  and  t^-  ^  legal  adviser  of  that  corporation. 


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"  Durin^T  this  whole  period  he  continued  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  the  State  and  Federal  courts. 

"Our  friend's  life  exemplified  these  marked  characteristics: 
enthusiasm  for  his  profession,  strict,  inflexible  intej^rity,  chival- 
rous iionor  and  courage.  Amon^  all  my  acijuaintances  1 
never  knew  one  whose  love  for  the  law  seemed  to  ecjual  his; 
it  was  the  dream  of  his  boyhood  and  the  passion  of  his  col- 
lej^iate  days.  Lon^inj^  for  the  hour  when  he  mi^ht  enter  the 
forensic  arena  and  do  battle  for  the  ri^ht,  he  chose  for  the 
oration  which  rewarded  his  distinguished  scholarship.  '  The 
Legal  Profession.'  This  early  fondness  for  his  chosen  pursuit 
was  an  earnest  of  the  industry  and  fidelity  in  its  study  which 
gained  him  the  speedy  and  brilliant  success  to  which  reference 
has  been  made.  Mr.  Deane  was  a  man  of  irreproachable 
morals  and  of  stainless  integrity.  His  conversation,  like  his 
life  from  earliest  youth,  bore  witness  to  the  purit)' of  his  heart. 
I  venture  to  say  that  the  man  does  not  live  who  ever  heard  an 
unworthy  suggestion,  a  demoralizing  .sentiment,  a  ciuestionable 
expression  fall  from  his  ips.  He  was  a  gentleman  of  honor 
and  delicacy,  ambitious  without  envy,  incapable  of  jealou.sy  or 
suspicion.  He  never  uttered  even  in  private  what  he  did  not 
believe  to  be  the  exact  truth,  nor  what  he  was  not  willing  and 
anxious  to  say  publicly.  He  never  spoke  of  another  in  secret 
what  he  was  not  ready  to  make  good  to  his  face.  His  chivalrous 
nature  gave  him  a  strong  inclination  for  military  life,  for  which 
I  suspect  he  would,  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion,  have 
abandoned  even  the  law  but  for  the  infirmity  of  his  vision. 

"  Mr.  Deane  was  a  public  man^  and  as  such  is  known  to  our 
whole  community  as  a  prudent  legislator,  a  faithful  and  incor- 
ruptible prosecutor,  a  wise  municipal  counsellor,  and  an  enter- 
prising and  public  spirited  man  of  business.  He  is  known  to 
us  as  a  zealous  but  fair-minded  advocate,  a  genial  friend,  an 
agreeable  associate,  a  high-toned,  pure-minded  gentleman,  and 
a  sincere  consistent  Christian. 

"  To  your  Honor,  as  well  as  to  myself,  Henry  P.  Deane  was 
endeared  by  the  ineffaceable  memories  of  college  life,  and  I 
am  sure  that  down  the  three  decades  which  have  passed  come 
only  pleasant  reminiscences  of  our  deceased  classmate. 


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"Judge  Virgin  responded  substantially  as  follows: 
"As  already  intimated,  it  is  but  a  few  months  less  than  thirty 
>  ears  since  forty-five  young  men,  standing  under  their  class- 
tree,  gave  each  other  the  parting  grasp,  bade  adieu  to  their 
'Alma  Mater,'  and  hopefully,  and  *  with  a  will  for  any  fate,' 
turned  their  faces  world-ward.  To-day,  with  melancholy  satis- 
faction, one  of  the  thirt)'  survivors  of  that  class,  as  the  organ 
of  this  court,  most  sincerely  concurs  in  the  justice  of  the  de- 
serving tribute  hich  your  resolutions — '  words  like  apples  of 
gold  in  picti  w  s  c(  silver' — and  the  feeling  and  appropriate 
accompanying  remarks,  pay  to  another  of  that  or'^;inal  num- 
ber, Henry  P.  De.  .  j,  late  of  this  city,  and  member  of  this  Bar, 
and  to  order  the  same  to  be  spread  upon  the  record  of  this 
C/urt  as  a  memorial  of  the  court  in  which  all  feel  a  common 
affliction. 

"  When  such  an  one  dies,  between  whom  and  us  such  strong 
riendship  and  intimate  relations  necessarily  subsist,  the  inevi- 
tableness  of  what  we  call  death  is  brought  home  to  us  with 
more  than  usual  force,  for  it  is  next  to  losing  one  from  our 
own  indi\idual  household  ;  and  the  common-place,  '  wc  must 
all  die,'  suddenly  transforms  itself  into  th*^  acute  consciousness 
'  I  must  die  and  soon,'  and  we  almost  seem  to  stand  upon  the 
dark  river  brink  listening  for  the  'plash  of  the  on-coming  op;,' 
and  expecting  the  summons  from  what  the  superstitious  of  the 
past  called  the  '  King  of  Terrors,'  whose  realm  is  the  grave, 
but  whose  arm  is  palsied  by  the  sword  of  the  spirit,  aad  whose 
crown  of  terrors  melts  away  before  the  eye  of  Christian  faith. 
For  within  the  field  of  Faith's  vision — 

"  'There  is  no  Death!     What  seems  so  is  transition. 
This  life  of  mortal  breath 
Is  but  a  suburb  of  the  life  Elysian, 
Whose  portal  we  call  Death. 

"  Still  none  of  us  has  such  dulled  sensibjjlities  as  not  to  be 
moved  by  sorrow  and  sadness  at  the  final  departure  of  such 
a  friend,  however  strongly  our  faith  may  assure  us  that  it  is 
He  *  who  does  all  things  well,'  who  '  made  and   loveth  all,' 


'lH.lJjen.f.tga.MJMil.-BliAiliiS^V-m." 


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has  called  him  to  Himself.  I  knew  our  late  deceased  brother 
more  thoroughly  while  he  was  laying  deep  the  foundations  of 
his  manhood's  usefulness  than  latterly.  I  was  a  daily  witness 
of  how  rapidly  assiduous  and  methodical  labor,  undisturbed 
by  any  bad  habits,  could  develop  his  intellectual  faculties,  and 
as  frequently  was  I  an  admirer  of  the  purity  and  high  purpose 
of  those  youthful  years,  for  although  he  possessed  a  sanguine 
temperament,  was  active,  and,  at  times,  apparently  somewhat 
impulsive,  still  his  instincts  being  right,  however  far  he  went 
they  took  away  from  him  the  power  to  go  in  the  wrong  direc- 
tion. And  notwithstanding  he  was  somewhat  impulsive,  he 
was  never  reckless  nor  even  rp.r.h,  but  opened  as  many  of 
'Argus's  hundred  eyes,'  before  using  any  of'Briaren's  hun- 
dred hands,'  as  any  young  man  of  his  warm  blood  well  could. 
Although  I  have  known  our  friend  less  intimately  latterly, 
until  quite  recently,  still  I  have  seen  him  frequently  enough 
in  the  social  walks  of  life,  and  while  he  was  in  the  discharge  of 
public  and  professional  duties,  to  learn  what  your  resolutions 
and  remarks  so  abundantly  confirm  me  in  believing,  that  those 
lessons  of  wisdom  so  early  practiced  and  acted  upon  while 
preparing  for  the  more  stern  and  rugged  duties  of  life  had  be- 
come his  'heart's  lore,'  and  the  foundation  stones  of  that 
character  which  the  winds  and  floods  of  the  world,  beat  they 
ever  so  violently,  could  in  no  degree  wash  away. 

"  '  His  conscience  never  flirted  with  beautiful  ideals  of  good- 
ness,' for  his  moral  character  was  not  based  upon  arguments 
and  opinions  even,  but  upon  convictions ;  and  no  one  who 
ever  heard  him  speak  concerning  them  ever  doubted  on  which 
side  of  the  questions  of  real  reform  his  influence  was  enlisted, 
for  his  acts  and  his  lios,  though  speaking  a  different  dialect, 
expressed  the  same  sentiments,  and  his  moral  digestion  was 
never  impaired  by  his  eating  hh  own  words, 

"  To  the  outside  world  it  may  sometimes  seem  that  members 
of  our  profession,  when  paying  their  respects  to  the  memory 
of  their  deceased  brethren,  do  more  than  act  upon  the  char- 
itable maxim  '  )iil  de  mortius  nisi  bomon,'  and  eulogize  them 
too  highly.     But  human  nature  generally  is  better  than  it 


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seems,  and  in  relation  to  the  really  good  man  'tis  nearness  and 
not  distance  lends  enchantment.  In  the  felicitious  language 
of  another,  '  a  sense  of  brotherhood  may  grow  up  between 
members  of  our  profession  stronger  and  more  enduring  than 
between  members  of  any  other  profession.  We  get  to  know 
each  other  by  heart.  In  the  steady  contemplation  and  ripening 
knowledge  of  the  law,  of  its  principles  and  relations,  there  is  a 
mystic  power  which  takes  common  possession  of  the  inner  life 
of  the  initiated,  which  blends,  assimilates  and  harmonizes  minds 
otherwise  alien  and  irreconcilable.  Hence  it  is  that  those  who 
might  seem  to  have  but  little  in  common  with  this  our  departed 
brother,  were  in  sympathy,  confidence  and  regard  very  near  to 
him,  as  he  was  very  near  to  us.  We  witnessed  his  professional 
growth  with  pride,  shared  his  achievements,  and  by  relation 
appropriated  his  honors. 

"This,  then,  is  the  true  record  which  our  brother  has  left  be- 
hind him.  If  he  performed  no  brilliant  achievement  which 
the  obstreperous  world  looking  through  the  enchanting 
medium  of  distance  has  chronicled  as  great,  neither  has  he 
•done  anything  to  tarnish  the  record  of  a  good  life,  or  sully  his 
memory ;  but  he  performed  all  his  duties  as  a  public  and  pri- 
vate citizen  with  fidelity.  I  have  heard  with  great  satisfaction 
the  expression  of  high  appreciation  which  this  Bar  continues 
to  entertain  of  the  inflexible  integrity  of  its  members ;  and  I 
am  glad  to  know,  as  well  from  your  words,  that  during  these 
latter  days  of  embezzlements,  defalcations  and  other  numerous 
evidences  of  corruption,  this  Bar  has  not  lowered  its  standard 
of  honest  worth,  but  holds  it  in  as  higvi  estimate  now  as  when 
its  great  rep»-esentative  shed  the  lustre  of  his  high  character 
in  the  counsels  and  departments  of  the  nation.  And  if  I  might 
presume  to  add  a  closing  injunction  to  so  old  and  honored  an 
association,  I  would  say,  especially  to  the  younger  members, 
stand  fast  to  your  integrity,  for  it  would  seem  as  if  the  Bar,  as 
a  whole,  is  among  the  last  anchors  that  now  holds  the  institu- 
tions of  the  country  to  their  old  moorings. 

"The  Judge  then  ordered  the  proceedings  to  be  entered  on 
the  records,  and  adjourned  the  Court  until  this  morning." 


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Extracts  from  My  Father's  Letters  to  Miss  Rebecca  D. 
Padelford  (Afterwards  his  Wife). 


The  po.stati^e  on  the  single  letters  was  twenty  cents. 
He  sailed  from  Boston  Thursday,  September  21,  1809,  ^^^^' 
Ellsworth,  and  reached  the  mouth  of  Union  River  the  Satur- 
day following.     He  writes  Monday,  September  25,  1809,  from 
Ellsworth : 

"  When  we  arrived  at  the  head  of  the  bay  the  tide  did  not 
suit  for  passing  the  bar,  therefore  I  requested  the  Captain  to 
set  me  ashore.  I  was  landed  in  the  town  of  Surry,  two  miles 
from  Ellsworth.  After  traveling  nearly  a  mile  on  an  uncon- 
scionable road,  I  was  surprised  at  finding  one  nearly  as  good 
as  roads  in  general  in  and  about  Taunton.  The  people  bear 
no  sort  of  resemblance  to  the  natural  appearance  of  the  coun- 
try. They  have  treated  me,  so  far,  with  great  attention.  I 
took  coffee  last  evening  with  Mr.  Herbert,  and  found  him  an 
intelligent,  learned  and  social  man ;  and  was  much  pleased 
with  Mrs.  Herbert,  she  is  a  very  chatty  lady.  *  *  *  j  at- 
tended meeting  yesterday,  and  was  very  agreeably  entertained 
by  their  minister,  Mr.  Brewer,  who  was  sent  to  this  place  by  a 
missionary  society;  from  his  sermons  I  should  judge  him  to 
be  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  promise.  I  have  found  a 
room  for  an  office,  and  a  place  to  lay  my  head.  The  board- 
ing house  is  the  best  in  this  part  of  the  country ;  it  is  kept  by 
Mr.  Sawyer.  Mr.  Brewer  boards  here,  and  a  doctor  and 
schoolmaster.  I  calculate  on  having  a  very  social  time.  Mr. 
Black  was  here  to-day.  To-morrow  I  shall  visit  the  Penobscot 
country,  and  shall  undoubtedly  call  on  Mr.  Brown.  It  is  ne- 
cessary for  me  to  go  to  Castine  to  procure  some  blanks  before 
I  can  commence  business  in  this  place.  *  *  *  The  West- 
ern mail  arrives  here  on  Tuesday  evening,  and  goes  out  on 
Monday  evening  or  Tuesday  morning.     If  you  put  your  let- 


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ters  in  Taunton  post  office  on  Monday,  I  shall  receive  them 
the  Sunday  following." 

"  Ellsworth,  Oct.  3,  1809. — *  *  *  I  concluded  to  take  a 
tour  to  see  of  what  material  the  country  was  made,  as  well  as 
to  see  if  I  could  not  find  a  more  eligible  situation.  The  first 
six  miles  were  tolerable ;  the  next  seven  lay  through  a  wilder- 
ness, and  I  saw  not  a  human  being  in  that  distance.  Then  I 
came  to  Bluehill,  a  large  and  pleasant  town  for  this  country. 
The  road  was  good  through  that  town.  The  next  two  miles 
were  bad,  beyond  all  description ;  then  the  road  grew  more 
and  more  pleasant,  until  I  arrived  at  Buckstown,  a  very  pleas- 
ant village."  From  thence  he  proceeded  to  Hampden,  to  visit 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  (Melinda  Padelford). 

"  The  second  day  after  my  arrival,  by  the  aid  of  Mr.  B.,  I 
became  acquainted  with  General  Ulmer.  The  General  rec- 
ommended Lincolnville  to  me,  and  made  some  very  fair  offers 
if  I  should  see  cause  to  settle  there.  His  offer  was  to  take 
me  into  his  family  to  board,  and  would  give  me  business 
enough  to  pay  my  board.  But  previous  to  any  positive  de- 
termination on  my  part,  the  General  very  politely  invited  me 
to  visit  him  at  his  house  in  Lincolnville.  I  consented.  Lin- 
colnville is  on  the  west  side  of  Penobscot  bay,  thirty-five  miles 
below  Hampden.  Friday  last  I  started  from  Hampden  for 
Castine;  three  miles  from  Castine  I  found  Major  Langdon,  of 
PLllsworth,  and  sent  my  horse  home  ;  traveled  on  foot  to  Cas- 
tine ;  found  Gen,  U.  there ;  spent  the  evening  with  him  and  sev- 
eral gentlemen.  Early  Saturday  morning  went  in  quest  of  a 
boat  to  set  me  across  the  bay,  but  found  none  that  would  sail 
till  evening.  Some  time  in  the  forenoon  I  went  into  Judge 
Nelson's  office,  procured  all  necessary  blanks,  and  dined  with 
his  honor,  and  passed  four  or  five  hours  very  sociably  ;  at  sun- 
set the  boat  set  sail  across  the  bay,  which  is  about  fourteen  or 
fifteen  miles  wide.  Was  landed  at  Northport  at  little  past  nine 
o'clock  ;  it  was  very  rainy,  and  exceedingly  dark  ;  the  roads 
were  rough  and  muddy,  but,  notwithstanding  all  these  diffi- 
culties, I  traveled  two  or  three  miles  till  my  guide  found  me 
a  place  to  lodge.     In  the  morning  I  set  out  for  Gen.  Ulmer's, 


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who  lived  five  miles  distant.  I  spent  Sunday  with  the  General, 
conversed  with  the  people  relative  to  my  settling  there,  but 
the  prospect  was  not  flattering.  *  *  *  Monday  morning 
the  General  furnished  me  a  horse,  to  travel  to  Belfast,  but  the 
packet  in  n^hich  1  took  passage  was  under  way,  and  I  was 
obliged  to  leave  the  horse  one  and  a  h  alf  miles  from  Belfast, 
near  to  the  shore,  and  hail  the  packet.  I  was  fortunate  in 
obtaining  my  passage.  My  next  object  was  to  gain  the  post 
road  from  Ellsworth  to  Buckstown  before  the  post  .should  pass, 
but,  alas,  the  attempt  was  fruitless ;  I  was  on  foot  and  had  fif- 
teen miles  to  travel  over  such  road  as  your  eye  never  beheld. 
*  *  *  About  4  o'clock,  P.  M.,  to-day,  I  arrived  in  Ells- 
worth. The  distance  from  Castine  is  about  thirty  miles ;  the 
most  of  it  I  traveled  on  foot.     *     *      *     Jq  ^.^.^^  q^^-  y^^^\\  ^yi^j^ 

the  people  is  an  object  of  the  first  magnitude.  Herbert  is  ex- 
tremely popular ;  he  is  established,  and  I  cannot  succeed  if 
my  efforts  are  not  unremitting."     *     *     * 

"  Oct.  6,  1809. — I  have  progressed  very  slowly  in  preparing 
my  office.  I  have  set  up  my  books,  procured  one  chair,  one 
bench  and  a  table ;  now  am  quite  ready  to  begin.  My  pros- 
pects are  not  flattering.  The  society  of  the  place  is  very  good, 
considering  all  circumstances.  I  have  met  none  so  good  in 
this  country,  and  I  believe  in  but  few  places  in  the  vicinity  of 
Taunton." 

"Oct.  16,  1809. — To-day  I  came  near  failing  to  send  you  a 
letter.  The  reason  ^\as  this  :  a  new  carrier  brought  the  mail, 
who  traveled  with  more  expedition  than  the  old  one,  and  I, 
unapprised  of  the  alteration,  had  made  my  calculation  of  de- 
positing my  letter  at  the  usual  hour.  But,  when  I  found  I 
was  too  late,  I  set  out  and  ran  half  a  mile  and  put  the  letter 
into  the  post's  hands;  he  promised  to  place  it  in  the  mail  at 
Bluehill.  *  *  *  J  hope  to  visit  Taunton  before  January. 
I  must  go  by  water ;  traveling  by  land  is  terrible,  I  have  tried 
it  to  my  satisfaction." 

"  Nov.,  1809. — Gen.  Ulmer  has  called  on  me  and  again  urged 
me  to  settle  in  Lincolnville.  As  an  inducement,  he  has  offered 
to  board  me,  and  do  something  more  for  me  in  the  business 


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he  will  put  into  my  hands.  From  the  first  the  General  has 
treated  me  with  the  greatest  politeness,  and  I  feel  much  in- 
debted to  him." 

"  Nov.  2,  1 809,  Thursday. — I  never  witnessed  a  more  pleas- 
ant autumn,  .so  far  as  relates  to  the  weather,  since  I  have  been 
here  ;  we  have  had  but  two  or  three  small  rains,  and  those  in 
the  night;  to-day  it  is  raining — you  can  hardly  conceive  how 
muddy  the  roads  are;  the  soil  is  clayey,  and  in  wet  weather  a 
person's  feet  stick  fast." 

"  Sunday  evening,  5th  Nov. — i  have  not  seen  your  letter  as 
I  anticipated ;  I  suppose  it  has  arrived,  but  the  post  office  is 
on  one  side  of  the  river  and  I  am  on  the  other.  The  bridge 
has  been  broken  down,  but  people  can  pass  over  its  ruins  on 
foot  in  daylight.  The  post  does  not  arrive  till  7  or  8  o'clock 
at  night,  and  it  would  have  been  very  dangerous  to  attempt 
crossing  the  bridge  at  night." 

"Dec.  12,  1809. — By  last  mail  no  letter  from  you.  I  con- 
sole myself  that  it  was  not  your  fault,  but  more  from  the  fol- 
lowing cause  :  The  last  mail  was  soaked  through,  the  contents 
very  wet  and  much  worn ;  no  mail  went  East  of  this  place  ; 
the  carrier  said  he  would  not  have  left  Bluehill  had  he  known 
how  bad  the  traveling  was.  *  *  *  j  spent  the  whole  of 
yesterday  afternoon  in  pursuit  of  the  apples,  and  obtained  a 
barrel,  on  which  we  all  feasted  last  evening.  The  vessel 
brought  seventy  barrels,  and  we  are  to  have  six.  As  a  reward 
for  my  diligence  and  success  my  landlady  is  busy  making  pies, 
on  which  we  shall  fea.st  this  evening.  We  have  had  some 
apples  before,  occasionally,  but  they  were  such  as  would  not 
be  eaten  at  the  Westward.  These  are  really  large  and  excel- 
lent. The  condition  of  the  poor  of  this  place  will  not  be  so 
wretched  this  winter,  as  I  apprehended  some  time  ago.  Pro- 
visions have  arrived,  and  if  they  will  work  they  can  obtain  a 
supply." 

"Dec.  17. — Yesterday  I  was  again  employed  in  a  voyage 
down  the  river,  to  aid  Mr.  Sawyer  in  boating  up  winter  stores." 

"  Dec.  18. — I  received,  not  one,  but  three  letters  in  the  last 
mail.     There  was  company  at  our  house,  so  I  read  only  one 


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before  going  to  bed ;  when  the  house  was  still  I  built  a  fire 
and  read  the  others." 

"June  27,  1810. — I  had  an  invitation  to  ride  to-day,  but  de- 
clined. The  party  consisted  of  six,  all  mounted  on  horseback  ; 
they  made  a  very  good  appearance,  but  could  you  see  the  road 
you  would  doubt  if  they  could  have  a  pleasant  ride.  I  have 
done  scarcely  anything  for  past  few  days,  beyond  attending  to 
a  little  military  business  and  some  P'ourth  of  July  matters." 

"June  30. — Strawberries  are  very  thick,  and  ju.st  ripe;  straw- 
berries and  gooseberries  are  almost  the  only  fruit  this  country 
produces,  and  they  are  very  nice.  Our  company  have  agreed 
on  their  uniform,  which  is  a  red  coat  trimmed  up  with  black, 
white  waistcoat  and  pantaloons  trimmed  with  red  cord,  black 
gaiters,  and  caps  like  the  Raynham  company,  or  hats  in  form 
of  officers'  hats,  with  feathers," 

"  Sunday. — We  trained  last  night  till  dark,  and  I  was  tired 
enough  to  go  home  and  go  to  bed.  I  have  not  one  .spark  of 
military  enthusiasm — not  enough  to  make  this  business  the 
slightest  amusement." 

"  Thursday,  July  5,  1810. — Last  Monday  night  I  went  to 
Frenchman's  Bay,  and  was  all  night  on  the  water  in  an  open 
boat;  returned  Thursday,  had  a  fair  wind;  sailed  the  boat  by 
the  assistance  of  slabs.  We  appeared  more  like  Indians  than 
civilized  beings.  The  voyage,  on  the  whole,  was  not  unpleas- 
ant, though  I  was  goaded  by  flies  and  mosquitoes  and  exposed 
to  the  scorching  rays  of  the  sun.  You  may  wish  to  know 
what  induced  me  to  take  this  voyage  of  seventeen  or  eighteen 
miles ;  it  was  only  to  procure  a  field  piece  for  the  Fourth  of 
July.  Yesterday  we  had  as  pleasant  a  time  as  could  be  ex- 
pected in  this  place ;  indeed,  it  far  exceeded  my  expectations  ; 
nearly  sixty  dined  at  one  table.  Our  amusements  were  train- 
ing, discharging  our  muskets,  bowling,  drinking,  &c.,  &c.,  and 
conversation.  There  was  a  ball  in  the  evening  ;  I  went  to  it, 
but  only  stayed  a  .short  time.  To-day  four  of  us  went  into 
the  field  and  picked  nearly  a  peck  of  strawberries ;  in  places 
the  surface  of  the  ground  was  almost  red  with  them." 


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I  have  above  quoted  as  nuich  as  seems  to  be  well  from 
these,  to  me,  most  interestin<;  and  vivid  letters.  In  places  in 
them  my  father  describes  his  first  boarding  house.  It  was 
kept  by  Mr.  Sawyer,  "a  clever  and  industrious  man  ;  he  likes 
^ood  living  and  good  cheer;  he  came  from  Reading,  Mass." 
lUit  it  is  evident  that,  so  far  as  the  management  of  household 
affairs,  Mrs.  Sawyer  was  the  chief  perstinage.  She  is  described 
as  an  "  intelligent  and,  considering  her  opportunities,  a  superi- 
or woman."  There  were  also  at  the  same  house  "  Mrs.  Capt. 
Teters  ;  her  husband  resided  in  Boston."  Mrs.  I'eters  "  has  a 
fine  little  boy,  named  Alexander  Hamilton  Peters,  with  whom 
1  frequently  amuse  myself  A  missionary  preacher.  John 
l^rewer  by  name,  boards  here;  he  is  an  intelligent,  social  and 
well  informed  young  man.  lie  has  been  a  great  traveler,  and 
frequently  amuses  us  by  narratit)ns  of  his  adventures.  I  le  has 
traveled  by  land  and  by  water,  horseback  and  on  foot;  he  has 
been  everywhere,  and  seen  everything;  as  a  preacher,  he  holds 
high  rank,  and  is  very  popular  with  the  people  of  this  place. 
Me  will  continue  here  but  three  weeks  more;  I  am  sure  I  shall 
miss  him,  and  regret  his  absence.  The  physician  of  the  place 
boards  here ;  he  is  a  clever  young  man  ;  but  the  place  is  verj' 
healthy,  therefore  the  people  can  dispense  with  a  phj-sician  of 
the  first  rank.     The  schoolmaster  is  likewise  a  boarder." 


Mention  is  also  made  of  occasional  calls  on  Squire  1  lerbert, 
who  was  at  one  time  very  sick  ;  also  of  visits  to  Col.  Jordan's; 
also  of  Mr.  Jones  and  his  family,  the  female  members  of  which 
are  spoken  of  as  very  well  educated  ;  also  of  his  acquaintance 
with  Capt.  IMack.  I  suppose  this  to  be  John  Black,  and  that 
his  title  of  Captain  was  derived  from  his  position  in  the  Cobb 
Light  Infantry,  the  military  company,  probably,  referred  to  in 
the  foregoing  extracts,  and,  I  think,  named  after  Gen.  Cobb, 
who  had  large  landed  possessions  in  the  vicinity  of  I^llsworth. 
He  came  from.  Massachusetts,  and  Capt.  Black  married  his 
daughter. 


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Letter  from   Mrs.  Mii.liken. 

I  wrote  Mrs.  C.  J.  Millikcn,  of  l^oston,  Mass.,  for  the  tem- 
l)orary'  loan  of  a  inamiscript  history  of  I^Usworth,  written  by 
her  kinswoman,  Miss  Martha  Jellison.  Mrs.  Milliken  very 
kindly  .sent  me  the  following  copy  of  the  mention  made  therein 
by  the  author : 

"  In  i8i  I  John  G,  Deane,  from  Raynham,  Ma.ss.,  establi.shed 
him.self  in  I^Usworth  as  attorney  at  law.  I  le  married  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Jiidj;e  I'adelford,  of  Taunton,  Mass.  Mr.  Deane 
folU)wed  the  le<^al  profession  until  he  was  the  father  of  a  lar^e 
family.  I  le  then  made  some  profitable  investments  which  en- 
abled him  to  move  to  Portland. 

"  Mr.  Deane  was  respected  by  all  classes  of  society  as  a 
man  wlio  conscientiously  discliarj^ed  the  business  entrusted  to 
him.  lie  was  a  kind  hu.sband,  an  affectionate  father,  and  a 
good  neij^hbor." 


And  then  Mrs.  Milliken  adds  the  followin<^  notes  by  herself, 
which  contain  so  many  interesting^  and  valuable  facts  that  I 
take  the  liberty  to  print  them  here: 

"  Boston,  iW^/.y  31,  1885. 
"Mv  Dkar  Mr.  Deane: 

"  Ellsworth  must  have  been  a  very  crude  little  town  in  1 8 1 1 , 
althouL^h  it  was  settled  as  early  as  1773.  Its  only  means  of 
communication  with  the  world  was  by  water,  the  voyage  to 
Bo.ston  often  taking  several  weeks  There  was  a  road  to  Cas- 
tine  at  an  early  date  after  the  settlement,  but  the  road  to  Bangor 
was  not  built  until  1815,  that  to  Buck.sport  in  1812,  and  there 
was  no  better  way  through  the  ICastern  wilderness  than  a 
hunter's  and  lumberer's  path  until  much  later.  For  years 
there  was  one  mail  West  each  week,  carried  on  horseback 
through  Surrey  and  Bluehill  to  Bucksport,  the  postboy  ford- 
ing the  creeks. 

"  The  wealth  was  for  years  exclusively  in  lumber,  the  inhab- 


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itants  rinding  it  more  [Jiofitablc  to  send  their  lumber  West  in 
exchange  for  supplies. 

"  ^^y  tJ«*<-'''it  ^nandfatlier,  who  was  the  ori^Mual  settler  and 
owner  of  a  lar^e  part  of  the  town,  and  who,  beinj^  a  loyalist, 
went  off  with  the  I'Ji^lish  troops  from  Castine,  built  the  first 
mills  and  vessels,  and  brou^dit  with  him  a  superior  elass  of 
men  from  Scarboro'  and  Spurwink.  h-arly  in  itSoo  (I  think) 
Col.  IMack  came  with  a  Mr.  Williams  as  a^^ent  for  the  ^M'eat 
Hin^ham  purchase,  which  comprised  many  townships.  About 
the  same  time  the  Jarvis  family  came  to  improve  their  tract 
of  lumber,  called  the  'Jarvis  Gore,'  ami  settled  in  Surry, 
where  they  built  a  fine  house.  You  may  remember  that 
Leonard  Jarvis  represented  the  tlistrict  in  Conjj^ress. 

"The  Otises  came  frt)m  Boston  as  aj^ents  for  the  property 
that  afterward  bore  their  name.  I  think  they  were  not  owners. 
Gen,  Cobb's  ^rant  of  land  for  military  service  was  in  .Sullivan, 
aiul  when  he  came  to  live  on  it  the  Sarj^ents,  of  Ho.ston,  came 
as  neighbors.  INI ary  Cobb  became  Mrs.  lilack,  and  Katharine 
Sargent  Mrs.  Jones,  or  Madame  Jones,  as  I  knew  her. 

"  These  families,  though  they  li\'ed  at  some  distance,  con- 
stituted a  more  cultivated  society  than  many  of  the  pioneer 
towns  could  boast,  and  the  more  cultured  of  the  earlier  set- 
tlers gathered  about  them.  As  late  as  I  can  remember  there 
was  a  superior  tone  to  the  society. 

"The  only  religious  worship  before  1S12  was  irregular, 
there  being  no  church  organization  and  no  clergyman  of  re- 
pute. In  181 1  Mr.  Nourse,  of  Holton,  Mass.,  was  settled  as 
pastor  and  schoolmaster,  the  two  offices  having  always  been 
united.  In  181  2  the  first  church  was  organized,  and  the  sys- 
tem of  education,  which  made  a  complete  revolution  in  the 
whole  district.  No  more  enthusiastic  or  self-denying  teacher 
ever  lived  than  Parson  Nourse,  and  the  town  owed  more  to 
him  than  to  any  other  of  its  citizens. 

"As  lumbering  was  the  principal  business,  all  other  was  sub- 
sidiary to  it.  There  had  been  several  'traders'  before  Edward 
D.  Peters  and  Major  Pond,  who  afterward  moved  to  Boston. 
I  think  that  Andrew  Peters  came  from  Bluehill  about  the  time 


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tnat  your  father  came,  and  Jesse  Diilton  (father  of  the  Dea- 
con), who  succeeded  him  in  business.  They  had  the  usual 
variety  stores  that  we  all  associate  with  country  places.  The 
IMacks  only  supplied  the  families  of  their  own  lumbermen  and 
the  men  who  took  up  farms  on  the  liinj^diam  lands. 

"  I  think  there  was  but  one  lawyer  in  town  before  your 
father — George  Herbert.  Jiid^^e  Hathaway  followed  soon 
afier.  I'^or  a  longtime  the  only  physician  was  Dr.  Peck,  wIkjsc 
lumberinjr  firrure  and  ^^enerous  powders  you  may  remember. 
The  old  revolutionary  pensioner  in  breeches  and  cue,  of  whom 
you  .speak  in  your  article,  I  remember  ;  I  think  he  had  no 
friends  in  town,  and  I  cannot  remember  his  name. 

"  There  were  more  than  the  usual  number  of  '  characters'  in 
r^^llsworth,  and  it  has  always  seemed  a  pity  that  some  one  at 
that  early  time  should  not  liave  '  made  a  note'  of  them.  Your 
mother,  with  her  wonderful  facility  of  lan^ua^e,  could  have 
done  it  admirably. 

"  I  remember  the  ^reat  respect  in  which  your  father  was 
held,  both  in  I'^llsworth  and  Cherryfield.  He  was  a  great  loss 
to  the  town,  which  needed  just  such  wise  and  liberal  men  to 
offset  the  smaller  race  of  traders  that  were  cominj^  up.  I  copy 
on  the  opposite  pa<^e  the  short  notice  of  him  found  in  the 
manuscript,  and  am  sorry  that  I  can  do  you  no  better  service. 
"  Very  sincerely, 

"C.    J.    MiLLlKEN." 


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On  page  4  of  his  monograph  "  Northeastern  Boundary," 
Gov.  Washburn  says  : 

"Nor  should  I  pass  from  this  grateful  duty  without  some 
reference  to  two  gentlemen,  upon  whose  patriotic  and  ardent 
interest  in,  and  thorough  and  perfect  knowledge  of,  the  ques- 
tions involved,  in  all  their  aspects  and  relations,  these  func- 
tionaries (Governors  Lincoln,  Kent  and  Fairfield,)  always  and 
safely  relied.     I  refer  to  Col.  John  Deane,  of  Ellsworth,  who, 


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in  his  later  years,  was  a  resident  of  Portland,  and  to  the  Hon. 
Charles  S.  Davies,  also  of  this  city." 

On  paj^c  32  as  follows,  about  my  father's  report  to  the  Leg- 
islature of  1 827 : 

"  So  much  of  this  message  (Gov.  Lincoln's)  as  related  to 
the  boundary  was  referred  to  a  joint  select  committee,  which 
made  a  brief  report  through  the  Hon.  John  G.  Deane,  a  gen- 
tleman who,  with  the  possible  excej)tions  of  Gov.  Lincoln  and 
Mr.  Davies,  understood  this  (juestion  better  than  any  man 
living." 

On  page  45,  respecting  my  father's  report  to  the  Legislature 
of  1 828,  he  remarks : 

"  Hon.  John  G.  Dcanc,  on  behalf  of  a  joint  select  commit- 
tee, made  a  report  so  full,  so  accurate,  so  absolutely  conclusive 
of  every  question,  as  to  leave  nothing  more  to  be  said  for  the 
vindication  of  our  claims  and  of  our  interpretation  of  the 
treaty  of  1783." 

On  page  48,  touching  the  report  of  1831  : 

"A  joint  select  committee  made  a  vigorous  report,  in  which 
were  no  sounds  of  uncertainty  or  fear,  through  Col.  Deane." 

On  page  72,  respecting  the  report  made  to  the  Governor  of 
the  doings  of  the  commission  appointed  to  run  the  boundary 
line  of  the  State  : 

"  In  communicating  this  report  to  the  Legislature  of  1839, 
Gov.  Kent  gives  the  substantial  facts  that  appear  in  it.  He 
says : 

"'Their  report,  which  I  have  the  pleasure  to  transmit  to 
you,  will  be  read  with  interest  and  satisfaction.'  "     *     *     * 


Copy  of  letter  from  Gov.  Lincoln. 

"  Portland,  May  22c/,  1827. 
"Dear  Sir: 

"As  it  was  not  consistent  with  rules  to  take  the  map  men- 
tioned in  your  letter  from  the  Secretary's  office,  I  could  not 
comply  with  your  request  earlier.     I  have  now  a  copy  of  my 


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own,  which  I  send  for  your  use.     It  j^ives  me  much  pleasure 
to  observe  that  your  historical  sketches  as  to  our  N.  K.  Boun- 
c    ry  have  attracted  very  generous  attention.    I  think  you  can- 
not be  too  minutely  particular,  and  I  am  rejoiced  that  the  sub-* 
ject  has  fallen  into  your  hands. 
"  I  am,  very  cordially, 

"  Yours, 

"  Enoch  Lincoln. 
'John  G.  Deane,  Esq." 


1 


In  regard  to  Col.  John  Black,  the  following  information  was 
commi;iiicated  to  me  by  a  valued  and  entirely  credible  corre- 
spondent : 

John  Black  came  from  England  in  the  employ  of  Charles 
Richardson,  the  English  agent  of  the  Bingham  purchase.  He 
became  an  inmate  of  Gen.  David  Cobb's  family  at  Gouldsboro, 
Maine.  Gen.  Cobb,  originally  a  physician,  acquired  his  mili- 
tary title  after  honorable  service  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution, 
and  is  commonly  reported  to  have  been  a  member  of  Gen. 
Washington's  staff.  He  moved  to  Gouldsboro,  from  Taunton, 
Mass.,  and  after  Mr.  Richardson's  return  to  England  became 
the  American  agent  of  the  said  Bingham  purchase.  Col. 
Black  married  Polly  Cobb,  Gen.  Cobb's  youngest  daughter. 
In  progress  of  time  he  succeeded  to  the  agency  of  said  pur- 
chase, and  removed  to  Ellsworth. 


The  following  pleasant  letters  contain  many  interesting  items 
of  information : 


Portland,  Me.,  20  January,  1885. 
Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  received  your  valued  fa!vor.     I  have  received  also 
the  copy  of  your  memoir  with  map  of  Maine,  to  which  you 


m.M^w 


62 


if 

II  |5 


refer,  from  Mr.  Williamson,  and  will  retain  this  for  the  ar- 
chives. 

In  regard  to  corrections  and  additions  to  be  made  in  your 
pamphlet,  I  would  say  by  all  means  make  it  as  complete  and 
perfect  as  possible. 

You  can  say  on  the  title  page  :  "  Presented  and  read  at  a 
meeting  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  held  in  Portland, 
8  January,  1885." 

Yours,  respectfully, 

H.  W.  Brvant, 

Librarian  and  Secretary,  M.  H.  S. 
L.  Deane,  Esq., 

Washington,  D.  C 


i    : 


III 


Belfast,  Me.,  January  19,  1885. 
Mv  Dear  Deane  : 

The  Historical  Society  will  be  very  glad  to  have  your 
paper  printed  in  pamphlet  form,  with  such  additions  as  you 
choose  to  make.  The  reprint  of  so  valuable  a  contribution  as 
was  yours  adds  to  our  character. 

We  shall  be  honored  in  electing  you  a  corresponding  mem- 


ber at  our  next  annual  meeting. 


Very  truly  yours, 

Joseph  Williamson. 


Portland,  Maine,  January  9,  1885. 
My  Dear  Deane: 

I  cannot  resist  the  temptation  to  express  my  delight  at 
that  admirable  tribute  of  filial  piety  before  the  Maine  Histori- 
cal Society  yesterday. 

I  was  not  fourteen  when  your  distinguished  father  died,  but  I 
distinctly  remember  him  and  the  reading  of  his  obituary  by 
my  father  in  the  family,  and  several  passages  were  recalled  after 
a  lapse  of  forty-five  years. 


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Not  long  before  your  father's  death,  I  think  as  late  as  the 
summer  of  1838,  and  perhaps  1839,  I  remember  standing  at 
our  end  door  holding  the  string  of  my  kite,  which,  on  the 
south-westerly  trade  wind  of  the  afternoon  soared  high  over 
the  U.  S.  Hotel,  or  Cumberland  House,  as  it  was  called  then. 

Your  father  came  along  down  Centre  street,  and  in  his  kindly 
way,  of  which  you  speak,  stopped,  looked  at  my  kite,  tried 
the  string  in  regular  boy  fashion,  and  talked  with  me  some 
time  about  kites,  to  my  great  satisfaction  and  pride.  I  doubt 
if  I  have  thought  of  the  incident  (c  ibrty  years,  but  your 
sketch  recalled  it  with  the  vividness  of  last  season. 
Your  old  friend, 

C.   W.    GODDARD. 


Portland,  Maine,  Januari/  12,  1885. 
My  Dear  Deane  : 

I  listened  with  a  great  deal  of  interest  to  your  paper  in 
memory  of  your  father,  read  at  the  late  meeting  of  the  Maine 
Historical  Society,  and  I  congratulate  you  upon  the  success- 
ful grouping  together  therein  of  your  recollections  of  the 
Ellsworth  of  your  boyhood  and  of  your  father's  services  to 
the  State. 

Mr.  Daveis'  article  was  well  worth  republishing,  as  a  speci- 
men of  choice  English  and  an  appreciative  eulogy  upon  your 
father,  who  certainly  deserved  well  of  the  State,  if  any  man 
ever  did, 

,      Yours,  truly, 

Geo.  E.  B.  Jackson. 


House  of  Representatives, 

Washington,  D.  C,  January  14,  1885. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Deane: 

I  ha^'e  jus-,  read  with  much  interest  your  sketch  of  your 
father's  life  and  public  service. 


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I  have  Gov.  Washburn's  history  of  the  N.  K.  Boundary  dis- 
l)utc,  into  which  I  shall  interleave  the  pages  upon  which  is 
written  this  memorial. 

I  well  remember  Black's  forest,  and  the  long  night  rides 
through  it  in  the  stage,  with  the  startling  information  of  loaded 
rifles  under  the  driver's  feet  for  defence  against  the  wolves; 
the  Peters  family  and  the  noted  name  of  Jellison ;  also  the 
large  white  State  street  house  where  you  used  to  live  in  Port- 
land. How  well  I  remember  Henry  and  "  J'Ved,"  so  young 
to  leave  these  country  .scenes.  I  never  had  the  lovely  array 
of  brothers  and  sisters  to  love  and  lo.se.  I  thank  you  very 
much  for  allowing  me  to  share  in  your  memories  and  associ- 
ations. 

Very  truly,  yours, 

W.  VV.  Rice. 


Ellsworth,  Maine,  Jan.  13,  1885. 
Mr.  Llewellyn  Deane. 

Dear  Sir : — The  sketch  of  the  life  of  your  father,  Mr. 
John  G.  Deane,  which  was  published  in  the  last  issue  of  the 
Ellsworth  American,  is  to  me  of  much  interest.  There  '"•  in 
my  mind,  a  chord  which  always  vibrates  at  the  mention  of  the 
early  days  of  Ellsworth,  and  I  feel  as  though  your  family  were 
a  part  of  the  town.  Although  I  am  a  stranger  to  you,  I  hold 
some  advantage,  for  the  "  Deane  family"  are  as  "  household 
words"  to  me  in  familiarity.  I  was  but  an  infant  of  a  few 
weeks,  or  months  at  most,  when  you  moved  from  here,  but 
you  must  have  known  my  father,  Mr  Joshua  R.  Jordan,  who 
came  here  from  Bangor  a  young  man  and  engaged  in  the  bus- 
of  shoe  making;  and  my  mother,  who  wa^j  the  oldest  daughter 
of  Dea.  Elishua  Austin,  whose  home  was  o.i  Uie  Surry  road, 
next  below  that  of  Col.  John  Black's.  They  were  married  in 
1832,  and  in  1835,  the  year  of  my  birth  and  your  removal 
from  town,  he  entered  into  mercantile  pursuits,  in  which  he 
continued  for  many  years,  retiring  some  years  before  his  death, 


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which  occurred  six  years  ago.  I  have  heard  him  say,  with 
much  pride,  that  he  made  Miss  Jesse  Dutton's  white  satin 
wedding  slipjjcrs. 

The  "  old  Deane  house"  is  now  in  our  possession,  my  hus- 
band and  his  partner  in  trade  having  bought  it  of  Geo.  N. 
IMack  some  fifteen  years  since.  The  house  they  moved  to  the 
back  end  of  the  garden  ;  and  I  have  always  been  told  that  in 
your  mother's  time  it  was  always  a  very  beautiful  garden. 
Roses  seemed  to  predominate.  On  the  spot  where  the  house 
stood  they  built  a  large  brick  store.  The  one  large  chimney 
of  tlie  house  was  taken  down  and  two  smaller  ones  substituted, 
thus  changing  the  interior  considerably  ;  but  you  can  still  see 
the  corner  posts  in  the  rooms,  and  the  many  different  sized 
windows  throughout  the  house.  The  exterior  remains  un- 
changed.    We  occupied  the  house  ourselves  for  five  years. 

Parson  Nourse  I  have  no  clear  recollection  of,  but  I  have 
faint  visions  of  his  teaching  school  in  the  hall  of  "  Defiance 
Square,"  of  Lowell  memory,  while  we  occupied  the  dwelling 
part  of  the  western  wing.  The  house  occupied  by  him  is  still 
standing,  though  in  a  dilapidated  condition.  I  had  the  honor 
of  being  presented  with  his  study  chair  by  Mrs.  Chas.  Lowell, 
when  she  left  here  for  Castine,  a  short  time  before  her  death. 
Dr.  Tenney,  Parson  Nourse's  successor,  who  came  here  in  the 
autumn  of  1835,  still  lives  among  us. 

Dr.  Parcher,  whose  name  you  remember,  has  just  passed 
away  with  the  old  year,  leaving  many  behind  him  who  do  truly 
sorrow  for  him.  P^ew,  indeed,  are  the  names  that  remain  who 
were  the  active  spirits  of  the  time  when  you  were  an  inhabi- 
tant of  hLllsworth.  And  as  the  people  have  changed  so  has 
the  town.  Our  residence  is  in  what  was  then  known  as  "Jones' 
pasture,"  direct  east  from  the  Peters  house  on  State  street,  or 
Bangor  road,  as  it  was  then  called,  and  north  of  the  Bcal 
place  on  High  street,  or  Mt.  Desert  road.  I  mention  these 
places,  thinking  they  may  be  within  your  recollection.  Sen- 
ator Hale's  is  next  east  of  ours,  and  farther  up  in  the  pasture. 
As  we  have  had  a  railroad  but  a  year,  it  is  hardly  safe,  I  think, 
to  boast  of  that. 


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Perhaps  I  have  already  infringed  on  your  time  and  patience ; 
and  if  I  have  made  a  mistake  in  thinking  you  mijjjht  be  ^lad 
to  hear  from  your  old  home,  even  through  a  stranger,  then 
please  pardon 

Mrs.  Augustus  W,  Clark. 


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Dear  Cousin  Lewell: 

I  received  an  Advertiser  last  week,  in  which  were  your  rec- 
ollections of  your  father  and  your  Ellsworth  home.  In  these 
I  was  very  much  interested,  for  they  brought  to  mind  rrany 
people  I  had  quite  forgotten. 

But  I  must  thank  you  first  for  your  kind  mention  of  father. 
He  was,  indeed,  one  of  Nature's  noblemen,  and  as  the  years 
roll  on  I  realize  more  and  more  how  good  and  true  he  was. 

That  "  intangible  vision  of  an  old  gentleman"  you  speak 
of  must  have  been  Major  Phillips.  It  is  his  long  white 
stockings  that  I  remember  most  distinctly.  The  white  shirt 
front  and  long  walking  stick  I  associate  with  Maj.  Langdon. 
Major  Pond  died  years  after  we  moved  to  North  Ellsworth. 

But  never  shall  I  forget  good  Parson  Nourse,  for  I  went  to 
his  school.  I  must  have  been  a  wee-bit  of  a  thing,  for  he 
would  often  take  me  in  his  arms  while  hearing  a  class  recite, 
and  many  a  nap  have  I  had  there.  Sometimes  he  would  let 
me  take  his  watch,  to  keep  me  awake,  most  likely.  I  have  the 
impression  that  he  was  not  very  "  sound  in  doctrine,"  but 
preached  the  love  of  God  rather  than  the  terrors  of  the  law. 
He  was  the  friend  and,  I  think,  the  classmate  of  Channing. 
Dr.  Channing  gave  the  pulpit  Bible  for  the  first  meeting  house, 
so  one  of  my  aunts  has  told  me.  My  father's  five  sisters  were 
all  his  pupils,  and  all  of  them  went  as  school  ma'ms  in  that 
region.  I  laugh,  even  now,  when  I  think  of  some  of  Aunt 
Tinker's  "  experiences,"  as  she  used  to  call  them,  in  "  school 
ma'ming ;"  but  she  would  make  the  most  common-place 
things  seem  utterly  ridiculous. 

Affectionately,  C.  L.  T. 

(Mrs,  ,Trubshaw.) 


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Kllswortii,  Maink,  May  30,  1885. 
Mv    JousiN  : 

I  yesterday  received  a  note  from  you.  My  parents  were 
married  August  17th,  1830;  my  sister,  Mary  Aj^nes  Deanc, 
was  born  July  i  ith,  1831  ;  she  died  October  6th,  1862.  I  was 
born  October  22d,  1832  ;  my  brother  was  born  July  2d,  1839, 
and  died  July  15th,  1841.  He  was  your  father's  namesake, 
John  Gilmore  Deane.  My  mother,  l^^liza  Fales,  was  born 
October  23d,  1808,  died  October  7,  1869.  My  father  died  at 
2,30  on  the  morninj^  of  May  5th,  1873.  There  were  never 
but  we  three  children.  I  think  I  have  answered  all  you  have 
asked. 

My  sister  was  named  Mary  for  our  grandmother  Deane, 
Agnes  for  the  wife  of  James  (?)  Gilmore,  our  first  ancestress 
who  came  to  America,  of  the  Gilmore  branch. 

My  father  left  Massachussetts  when  hardly  seventeen,  and, 
with  the  exception  of  less  than  two  years  at  the  period  of  the 
births  of  my  sister  and  myself,  was  never  there  ag?"n  but 
for  brief  visits.  I  cannot  remember  his  having  been  to 
Taunton  but  once.  He  was  last  there  in  the  winter,  about 
1 87 1.  Was  Mr.  Hall  sure  in  calling  it  1873  ?  Had  he  lived 
he  would  have  gone  for  a  final  visit  to  the  graves  of  his 
kindred,  and  for  that  purpose  I  was  to  accompany  him.  Will 
you  excuse  me  if  I  say  I  wonder  how  Mr.  Hall  can  know 
much  of  my  father  beyond  his  boyhood  ? 

My  father  took  great  pleasure  in  writing  a  genealogy  of  his 
family ;  he  thought  it  would  give  pleasure ;  he  wrote  it  for 
me,  but  since  I  have  been  left  all  alone,  I  have  not  the  courage 
to  follow  with  eyes  my  father's  silent  pen.  Still  if  you,  the 
only  other  living  representative  of  our  generation,  have  the 
desire,  I  think  you  have  the  right  to  see  what  my  father  has 
written.  I  never  have  read  the  one  he  was  writing  when  he 
died.  All  my  father's  papers  are  in  the  hands  of  the  adminis- 
trator, for  the  administration  is  still  open. 

I  am  very  glad  that  the  biography  of  your  father  will  be 
written,  and  shall  gladly  receive  a  copy  if  you  are  willing  to 
give  it  to  me.     Your  father's  memory  is  no  unfamiliar  one  to 


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nic,  for  we  were  taught  to  reverence  his  and  our  grandparents' 
memory. 

Since  I  knew  you  were  living  I  have  desired  to  know  your  ad- 
dress. Grandfather  Deane  gave  my  sister  at  his  death  the  ante- 
Revokitionary  tea-pot,  which  was  Katherine  WilHs  Deane's, 
and  to  my  fatlier  he  gave  an  old  pair  of  "  bull's  eye"  spectacles, 
supposed  to  have  been  those  of  Lieut.  John  Deane,  afterward 
Capt.  of  Dragoons  for  Colony  of  Massachussetts,  under  King 
George.  My  father  gave  me  an  old  rat-eaten  commission  of 
his.  Whether  the  spectacles  are  genuine  or  no,  the  commission 
surely  is.  There  is  enough  of  it  for  restoration,  but  I  have 
not  had  the  means.  I  want  to  keep  these  things  during  my 
life,  but  have  wished  for  your  address  to  leave  the  things  to 
you  at  my  death.  I  prize  the  relics  of  my  ancestors.  I  had 
other  things  which  were  lost  at  the  time  I  had  to  give  up  my 
home  so  soon  after  my  father's  death,  which  so  rapidly  followed 
my  husband's  death. 

I  have  other  things,  such  as  articles  woven  previous  to  my 
father's  birth,  a  monstrous  cherry  wood  chest  for  bed  linen, 
&c.,  a  flat  brass  candlestick.  The  tea-pot  and  commission  I 
thought  you  would  like,  "  for  all  other  things  equally  balanced, 
it  is  a  good  thing  to  have  had  a  grandfather."  My  father 
framed  an  old  deed  from  "John  Deane,  cordwainer,  to  Joseph 
Deane,  husbandman,"  dated  1741,  signed  by  John  Deane  and 
Phebe  Deane,  witnessed  by  Abiel  Deane,  David  Deane,  Han- 
nah Deane,  Mercy  Deane.  I  imagine  it  to  be  my  grand- 
father's homestead.  My  father  made  futile  attcmps  to  trace 
his  nephew,  Albert  Deane's  family  in  Connecticut. 

With  respect, 

Sabra  W.  Deane-Otis. 


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Bro.  Deane  : 

Yours  came  to  me  whilst  I  was  down  in  Old  Alfred,  at 
court,  and  I  reserved  an  answer  till  I  came  home.     I  received 


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the  paper  some  time  a^o  which  contained  a  sketch  of  your 
fatlier,  and  I  enjoyed  it  much.  lie  is  of  my  earUest  memory. 
I  used  to  be  at  your  house  a  ^ood  deal  when  a  small  boy. 
Yours  was  one  of  the  houses  boys  could  possess  to  them- 
selves. I  was  attracted  there  because  your  brother  Henry  and 
I  were  of  the  same  a<^e.  I  have  an  impression  we  were  born 
on  the  same  day,  October  9,  1822. 

I  distinctly  remember  that  your  father  used  to  notice  boys 
a  good  deal,  and  many  a  time  gave  me  a  cent,  which  in  those 
days  would  buy  all  a  boy  needed  or  wanted.  Your  father  was 
very  fond  of  fishing.  In  those  days  Union  river  was  well 
stocked  with  fish,  trout  and  perch  being  in  abundance.  I  very 
well  remember  when  your  father  used  to  go  and  come  on  his 
Madawaska  circuits,  I  presume  you  may  not  --emembcr  the 
location  of  his  offices.  There  was  a  wooden  one  once  near 
your  old  house,  which  was  afterwards  used  as  a  school  house. 
It  was  finished  in  board  sheathing  inside,  immensely  great 
and  long  clean  boards,  and  not  a  knot  on  them.  I  went  to 
school  there  once  to  one  of  the  Chamberlain  girls. 

Afterwards  he  had  a  one-story,  and,  I  think,  a  brick  office, 
about  where  the  Black  .store  is,  next  to  my  father's,  with  a 
room  on  each  side  of  an  entry  in  the  middle  of  it.  One  room 
was  the  cvery-day  office,  and  the  other  was  used  on  occasions. 
I  can  now  see,  in  my  mind's  eye,  John  Dougherty  sawing 
wood  in  front  of  the  office,  about  the  first  Irishman  in  Ells- 
worth, and  he  lived  at  your  father's  many  years.  Your  brother 
John  and  Charles  Jordan  were  cronies,  and  so  were  your 
brother  Joseph  and  William  Jordan. 

Your  father  was  fond  of  a  nice  garden,  having  one  in  v/hich 
everything  grew.  He  was  very  fond  of  cards.  I  have  heard 
my  mother  say  that  at  parties  in  the  earlier  days  Mr.  Deane 
usually  wanted  a  game  of  cards.  He  and  my  father  were 
friends — were  of  the  same  politics. 

Your  father  was  quite  a  military  man.  He  was  a  lieutenant 
in  the  Cobb  Light  Infantry  on  its  march  to  Mt.  Desert  in  the 
war  of  18 1 2,  and  was  at  a  time  captain  of  the  same  company, 
and  was  also  afterwards  a  staff  officer.     He  was  a  friend  and 


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counsellor  of  my  mother's  father,  Colonel  Melatiah  Jordan, 
who  was  collector  of  Frenchman's  liay  from  1789  until  1818, 
when  he  died.  Your  father  was  an  appraiser  on  his  estate ; 
Colonel  Black  was  the  administrator. 

Your  father  was  a  good  man,  of  fine  talents,  great,  good 
judgment,  no  man  more  honest,  and  possessed  of  those  qual- 
ities which  made  him  di.stinguished  as  a  lawyer,  though  he  was 
in  quite  early  life  attracted  out  of  the  profession.  And  that 
numerous  family  of  children,  a  pew  full  at  church,  a  school 
house  and  the  road  to  school  made  lively  by  them,  and  now 
most  all  gone !  I  love  to  think  of  them — to  call  them  before 
my  mind  in  review — but  not  too  long,  for  alas,  it  becomes  a 
picture  of  sadness.  Your  good  mother,  too — how  well  I  re- 
member her  as  she  was  more  than  fifty  years  ago. 

These  things  have,  without  method  or  reflection  flowed 
through  my  mind,  as  I  took  up  my  pen  to  thank  you  for  the 
kind  expressions  of  your  letter.     And  I  am, 

Very  sincerely,  yours, 

John  A.  Peters. 


Bangor,  Maine,  20  Jane,  1886. 
Bro.  Deane: 

I  send  you  some  letters  of  your  father,  whose  memory  is 
dear  to  me,  and  how  much  more  so  to  you  !  He  was  my 
father's  compeer  and  friend.  My  father  never  himself  wanted 
official  position,  but  he  loved  to  support  his  friends  for  places. 
Your  father  was  in  the  Legislature  a  good  deal  till  1832,  when 
the  Jackson  forces  undermined  the  old  ruling  regime  of  Han- 
cock county. 

In  the  letter  of  1829  the  matter  alluded  to  was -the  setting 
off  a  part  of  town  of  Surry  on  to  Ellsworth,  and  the  act  pre- 
vailed. Col.  Black  \  IS  interested.  Before  then  Surry  ran 
up  to  the  Union  River  bridge. 

Yours  truly, 

J.  A.  Peters. 


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